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Divine Instrument. His nation was stunned. In the cities, whites and blacks fought for copies of the newspaper extras that brought the first word of the assassination. In Johannesburg, a bus driver saw the headlines, stopped his bus, and fainted at the wheel. A quarter of a million South Africans...
For a while, Verwoerd was content to 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...
No. 1 & No. 2. Apartheid (pronounced apart-ate) is an Afrikaans word meaning separation. It is a political dogma based on the fear-not entirely unjustified-that South Africa's 12 million blacks will overwhelm its 3.4 million whites, and it is enforced only through massive and brutal police...
Not all the white people are happy with Verwoerd's state of affairs. There is a vocal minority of racists even more extremist than he is, who accuse him of doing too much for the "bloody kaffirs." His regime is widely criticized, moreover, for its refusal to allow television...
Reinforcements Next Time. One of Kennedy's few outspoken critics was Blaar Coetzee, Deputy Minister of Bantu [Negro] Administration, who called the Senator a "little snip," and vowed that South Africa would not be intimidated by the U.S. or Great Britain. The pro-government Afrikaans press was also antagonistic...