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If Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has his way, most of South Africa's 11,000,000 Bantu (native blacks) one day will live in their own Bantustans-eight big isolated reserves in regions safely separate from the white cities. There the stark concept of total apartheid will get its...
Far in the background, scattered white liberals cried out for a change in the government's tough policies before it is too late. But deep in plans for Republic Day, Hendrik Verwoerd and his Afrikaner supporters were too busy to listen.
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's walkout from the Commonwealth sent a tremor through the Union of South Africa. Many of the English-speaking minority felt a sinking sensation as their last link with Britain was severed. Diamond Magnate Harry Oppenheimer called the news "appalling." Said Johannesburg's Englishlanguage...
In London, Verwoerd. made it clear that South Africa will remain in the sterling bloc,, and he was eager to work out bilateral agreements to retain his country's Commonwealth trade preferences. He was also ready to continue coordinating defense policies with Britain. His offer of cooperation was cordially...
When the guns of South Africa's Nationalist police mowed down hundreds of black "rioters" at Sharpeville last March. Richard Ambrose Reeves. 61. Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, rushed to the scene. He talked to the wounded in their hospital beds. Later he announced his findings: none of the rioters...