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...wake of the first bloody rioting, he told an anxious white audience: "The Bantu are orderly and loyal to the government. They understand that we are thinking of their interests." In eight years as Minister of Native Affairs in the regimes of Daniel Malan and Johannes Strijdom, genial Dr. Verwoerd fashioned South Africa's tough segregation decrees. Using such criteria as the shape of noses and kinkiness of hair, his system classifies blacks, mixed-blood coloreds and Asians by race, then allocates to each a rigid, underprivileged place in society, in which his residence, travel, employment-even his drink...
...Dutch hymn, Let God's Blessings on Him Fall. Then the paneled teakwood doors swung open, and out into the early spring sunshine of Cape Town strode the man they had just elected Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa to succeed the late Johannes Strijdom. White-haired, pink-cheeked Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (pronounced Fair Voort) looked more like an off-duty Santa Claus than a hard-fisted authoritarian. Yet in his eight years as Minister of Native Affairs, he had proved himself pre-eminent among all the racists crowding the South African stage...
...Strijdom leaves his gifted pianist widow and a son and daughter. An earlier marriage to Actress Marda Vanne broke up after a year, is rarely mentioned by his Nationalist followers, among whom divorce is shameful. At his death, Strijdom had not cut all ties with Britain (there are economic advantages in staying in the Commonwealth), but the Union Jack is no longer flown, and God Save the Queen is no longer South Africa's anthem. In his honor South Africa's state radio played solemn music and the official anthem, Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice...
Until a successor is named, Minister of Justice C. R. "Blackie" Swart would serve as acting Prime Minister, but life will be little different with Strijdom gone. What had given him power was the depressing fact that, to most Afrikaners, Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom's combination of righteousness and ruthlessness seemed to reflect a common ideal...
Died. Johannes Strijdom, 65, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa; in Cape Town (see FOREIGN NEWS...