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Word: klerk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week in Parliament, suave Interior Minister Johannes de Klerk blandly denied Colored leaders' charges that the government is deliberately siphoning off the light-skinned in order to increase South Africa's white population as a bulwark against the huge black majority. De Klerk explained that in issuing white identity cards to the 300 Cape families, his officials were only trying to "act humanely" and give borderline cases "the benefit of the doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: CROSSING THE COLOR LINE | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...jail on charges of insubordination, said the Post (and after the disaster were quietly released). Eighteen apparently persisted and found a side exit, for the Government Department of Mines last week announced that 18 natives, previously listed as dead, had all turned up alive. Minister of Mines Johannes de Klerk promised a full investigation of the Post's charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Delayed Reaction | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

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