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...most likely to succeed, however, seemed to be Johannes Balthazar Vorster, 50, the burly Justice Minister who organized Verwoerd's tough, efficient police force and who represents to hundreds of thousands of Afrikaners the thing they want most: security. To haters of apartheid, Vorster would be bad news. He is the hero of the party's militant extreme right wing, which has long thought Verwoerd was doing too much for the blacks...
...order anyone too critical of its policies confined to his home for years, forbid newspapers to quote him on any subject. Backing up the laws is a tough, efficient police force, plus a military and paramilitary organization specifically trained to put down insurrection. Top cop is Justice Minister Johannes Balthazar Vorster, 50, a devout Nationalist whose background includes two years in a South African internment camp for pro-Nazi activities...
...from participating in politics or in NUSAS activities, and he can enter the University of Cape Town grounds, where he is a student, only for the purpose of attending classes. "Banning" under South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act is the exclusive prerogative of the Minister of Justice, Johannes Balthazar Vorster, and cannot be tested in the courts. Appeal can be made only to the Minister himself, who is not likely to reverse his decision. Vorster has described the 20,000-member student union as a "cancer... tainted with Communism" and has attacked it for advocating integration in the universities...
...Johannes Balthazar Vorster, the South African Minister of Justice, last week attacked the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) as a "cancer" that "has become the mouthpiece of Lefitists" and is "tainted with Communism...
South Africa is putting to increasing use one of the newest weapons in its arsenal of repression: house arrests. So far Justice Minister Johannes Balthazar Vorster has wielded it against 13 men and women, subjecting them without trial to what one opposition politician called "civil death...