Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Afrikaners, just as the spears and arrows of the Zulu warriors used to bounce off their forefathers' laagers, the ring of covered wagons drawn up tightly in defense. "Every time someone stands up in the United Nations and points an accusing finger at South Africa," says a South African journalist, "a few thousand more whites move over to Verwoerd's side...
...expensive northern suburbs, artistically wrought steel burglar bars cover the windows of elegant homes, where watchdogs growl on the door mats and swimming pools sparkle on the spacious grounds. Surrounding the city, but separated from it by a green band of no man's land, are African townships where hundreds of thousands of blacks live in government-built mass housing units...
...Verwoerds were assigned to Bulawayo, a new British town in Southern Rhodesia, and young Henk was enrolled in a British boys' school. It was his first contact with the rooineks (red necks, an Afrikaner term of derision for the British who burned easily in the hot South African sun), and he hated them...
...stay on at the university, first as a lecturer in applied psychology, then as chairman of the new department of sociology. But gradually he began applying his trade in the politics of the Nationalist Party. In 1933, when Nationalist Prime Minister Barry Hertzog made a pact with the South African Party's pliable Jan Christian Smuts-whom Verwoerd considered a tool of the British-he was so disgusted that he joined Afrikanerdom's ultranationalist secret society, the Broederbond (brotherhood). With a young Transvaal lawyer named Johannes Strijdom, he founded Die Transvaler, an Afrikaans-language newspaper, to put across...
...basic first step was the Population Registration Act, which officially classified every South African by race so that the regime would know whom to discriminate against. In every town where there were dark whites and light Coloreds, government boards met for years trying vainly to categorize them all, in some families decided that one brother was white and the others Colored. ("We may make a few mistakes," admitted one arbiter of the races...