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Clearly, Rev. Jesse Jackson has nitched a spot for himself in history. New Republic writer Hendrik Hertzberg has claimed that Jackson is one of the most important Black leaders in America this century, ranking him behind only Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King...
...results of his campaign were sufficient to lead Hendrik Hertzberg to exclaim that Jackson has proved himself to be the most important Black leader in the country's history next to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Booker T. Washington...
...republic" of Transkei last week was also the most recent setback suffered by South Africa in its 28-year attempt to ghettoize the country's black majority into a series of ten independent Bantustans, or homelands, legally separate from white South Africa. Conceived by the late Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd as an instrument of "grand" apartheid, his plan to engineer the total separation of the races, the homelands policy is now regarded even by the government as a practical impossibility because of South Africa's dependence on a black work force. But the legacy of the plan, in the form...
...University of Stellenbosch is the oldest Afrikaans-language university in South Africa and by far the most prestigious. Six of the country's eight Prime Ministers were graduates. One of them, Daniel Malan, was a university chancellor and another, Hendrik F. Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was a professor in the sociology department. The university's present chancellor is State President P.W. Botha, though he did not attend Stellenbosch...
Presiding over this state of folly was one of Malan's most dogmatic successors, Hendrik Verwoerd. In a radio broadcast, Verwoerd declared, "The policy of separate development ((apartheid)) is designed for happiness, security and stability . . . for the Bantu as well as the whites." Said Andries Treurnicht, onetime chairman of the Broederbond and subsequently founder of the breakaway Conservative Party: "We believe that justice is best attained by way of differentiation or separate development...