Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright and balmy spring afternoon in Cape Town. In the public gardens beside the South African House of Assembly, brown squirrels scampered through the oak trees, and white men lazed comfortably on the benches marked "Europeans Only." Inside the paneled assembly chamber, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd strode down the aisle, took his green leather seat on the front bench and, in a gesture that had become automatic, touched the fingers of his left hand to a small scar on his jaw, all that remained of the assassin's bullet that had nearly killed him in 1960. Verwoerd...
...knows much about the killer. Born in Portuguese Mozambique, Tsatendas is said to be the illegitimate son of a mulatto woman and an Egyptian of Greek descent. Despite his mixed blood, he managed to pass himself off as a white, fooled the Verwoerd regime into granting him South African citizenship. Shortly after he was hired as a parliamentary messenger in August, he complained that his $140-a-month salary was not enough for a white man to live on. Verwoerd, he charged, was "doing too much for the coloreds and not enough for the poor whites...
...occasion was the 16th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference, and the primary issue was Rhodesia. Last January, Britain's Harold Wilson had talked the Commonwealth's nine African nations into going along with his policy of economic sanctions as the best way to topple Ian Smith's white rebel regime and prepare the way for handing the government over to Rhodesia's repressed black majority. But the sanctions have not worked, and Wilson last week faced a different kind of rebellion...
...first time in the land of apartheid, South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd last week received a black African leader. He is Chief Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Basutoland, which, with independence next month, gets a new name...
Lesotho. The P.M. journeyed to Pre toria in a South African air force plane to talk business. Lesotho will be entirely surrounded by South African territory and is heavily dependent on Verwoerd's economy since thousands of Basuto regularly flock to South African gold mines for jobs. But Chief Jonathan has something to offer in return: water for South Africa's parched farmlands, and some spit and polish for the image Verwoerd would like to project to the world as a man reasonable to his black neighbors if not his black countrymen. The talk was friendly enough...