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Word: verwoerdian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Cracks in the System | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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