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Word: fairvoort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...white strictly apart, tall, Dutch-born Minister of Native Affairs Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd recently got the Native Laws amended so that he now has control of practically every social contact between the races, even in white areas-schools, hospitals, clubs and churches. Stubbornly self-reliant Minister Verwoerd (pronounced Fairvoort) boasts that not one of his seven children has ever been bathed or put to bed by an African servant. Like most stout Boer nationalists, he holds that God intended that races be kept apart. The church clause in the new law gives him power to ban mixed worship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: White Man's God | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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