Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 the principles in their purest form...
Smith has also received generous aid from South Africa, even though his regime's blatant march toward apartheid is something of an embarrassment to Pretoria and its "outward-looking" foreign policy of making friends with its African neighbors. The embarrassment is likely to increase as Rhodesia makes use of the constitution's possibilities for repressive laws. Sooner or later, those laws are likely to be needed. South Africans are outnumbered by Africans only 4 to 1. White Rhodesians have set themselves the task of staying on top in a country where they are a minority by a ratio...
...will generate 12 billion kw-h of electricity per year, 2 billion more than Egypt's Aswan High Dam. Eventually, the dam will become a sort of common-market grid for white-dominated southern Africa. Most of the power will travel 800-mile-long lines to Pretoria and feed South Africa's industry, but Mozambique's other neighbors, Rhodesia and probably Malawi, will get their share...
MARQUARD DE VILLIERS, M.D. Pretoria, South Africa...
...fought for copies of the newspaper extras that brought the first word of the assassination. In Johannesburg, a bus driver saw the headlines, stopped his bus, and fainted at the wheel. A quarter of a million South Africans, black as well as white, stood silently on the streets of Pretoria while his funeral procession filed past. Hundreds of thousands of whites flocked to their churches for solace. "May the God in whom we believe make clear to us in his own time what this horrible event is to signify to our country and her people," intoned Cape Town...