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However gentle such maneuvers may seem, they infuriated the Nationalist Party's extreme right-wingers-especially Dr. Albert Hertzog, 70. Dropped from the Cabinet in 1968 and expelled from the party last September, Hertzog organized his own verkramptes (narrow-minded) group, which became known as the Reconstituted (or "Purified") Nationalist Party...
...Transvaal, stronghold of the most intransigent white supremacists, a long-simmering quarrel between Vorster and the archreactionaries has burst into the open. Super-Segregationist Dr. Albert Hertzog, 70, expelled from the party last month, will formally launch a new political union this week-the Christian National Party-to challenge the Nationalists. For nearly 40 years, Hertzog has worked for apartheid. As he told 2,000 yelling, stamping followers in Pretoria, the Transvaal capital: "Die stryd duur voort"-the fight goes on. "I was expelled," he said, "not because I deviated from party principles but because I wanted to maintain...
Looking Outward. To Hertzog-and to a significant number of other Afrikaners-Vorster has broken the rules. He has not violated basic attitudes, in their view, because he still believes devoutly in apartheid. But Hertzog and his followers accuse the Prime Minister of "weak, vacillating and opportunistic leadership, resulting in the Nationalist Party being ripped from stem to stern...
...while, Verwoerd was content to stay on at the university, first as a lecturer in applied psychology, then as chairman of the new department of sociology. But gradually he began applying his trade in the politics of the Nationalist Party. In 1933, when Nationalist Prime Minister Barry Hertzog made a pact with the South African Party's pliable Jan Christian Smuts-whom Verwoerd considered a tool of the British-he was so disgusted that he joined Afrikanerdom's ultranationalist secret society, the Broederbond (brotherhood). With a young Transvaal lawyer named Johannes Strijdom, he founded Die Transvaler, an Afrikaans...
...keep out foreign "liberalist" programs (such as I Spy) and to protect the Afrikaans language against the incursions of English (there are no packaged shows in Afrikaans). A recent opinion poll showed that two-thirds of all white South Africans want TV, but Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Albert Hertzog, one of the most powerful men in the Nationalist Party, refuses to budge. "No, not, and never," he says, adding that TV is "the greatest destroyer of family life in the Western world...