Word: verwoerdian
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...scuffle marks are still visible), and his bronze bust continues to glower from its plinth in the old entrance hall. One imagines he would never have countenanced the vibrant scene last week, as the House opened its new session complete with tribal dress in the back benches. But Verwoerdian notions about decorum, among other topics, no longer hold sway in a government whose face has changed dramatically overnight. Parliament, with its stuffy, Westminster-style affectations, has already begun to adapt...
...week's most important developments concerned the government's changing policies on apartheid. Assuming that Botha follows through, the changes will mark the beginning of the end of the elaborate Verwoerdian plan of creating ten black homelands, thereby leaving the remaining 87% of the country's land area to white South Africans. The citizenry of each of the four existing "independent" homelands is divided between people who live there and those who reside in the black townships of white South Africa. The government had previously said that the 4 million blacks in the latter category could continue to live legally...
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