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...Cape Town, where Mourning Day was also observed, all the violence, demonstrating and pass-burning had been in native areas. No procession had yet violated the main streets of white men's cities. In most areas African passions were ebbing. But in the next days, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government managed to change that...
...century and a half, blacks in the Union of South Africa have had to carry passbooks. But it is only in recent years, under the Boer regime of stubborn, stiff-necked Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, that the passbook has become almost a physical shackle...
...Neither Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd nor any member of his Cabinet has ever set foot in the Negro-ruled new states of Africa, but this does not prevent South Africa's confident Prime Minister from speaking for the millions who populate them. "The mass of Africans do not want independence," he assured his Parliament last week. "They are just being used by a few small groups [of Africans] who are really considering their own interests." In the same building six weeks before, Britain's Harold Macmillan had warned of the "wind of change" sweeping the continent and of Britain...
...chief justice of the Union's Supreme Court, is both the country's most eminent jurist and its best-loved Afrikaans author; his novels and verse are found in practically every veld farmhouse. In a book published early this month, called Our Responsibility, Fagan pronounced Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's rigid apartheid "hopelessly impractical," and pointed out that the government has found it "impossible" to carry through "the mass withdrawal of [ black] labor from European industries." Just as "Karoo farmers do not waste their time arguing whether the low rainfall of the area they farm...
...cave-in, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd solemnly told Parliament that after five attempts to bore through 500 ft. of earth and limestone in search of the men, "all hope" had been abandoned. But wives of three of the white miners begged for one more rescue attempt. A self-styled seer, Petrus Johannes Kleinhans, 29, had told them that he had a vision in which he saw the precise position of seven black and three white men, still alive. When he pointed to the place to dig, mine officials, who had insisted all along that there was no hope, said...