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...Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is not only the ablest white leader Africa has ever produced but the only white leader in the world with the guts to speak his mind...
...first time in the land of apartheid, South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd last week received a black African leader. He is Chief Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Basutoland, which, with independence next month, gets a new name...
Lesotho. The P.M. journeyed to Pre toria in a South African air force plane to talk business. Lesotho will be entirely surrounded by South African territory and is heavily dependent on Verwoerd's economy since thousands of Basuto regularly flock to South African gold mines for jobs. But Chief Jonathan has something to offer in return: water for South Africa's parched farmlands, and some spit and polish for the image Verwoerd would like to project to the world as a man reasonable to his black neighbors if not his black countrymen. The talk was friendly enough...
...Even your slanted story failed to conceal the obvious solution to the problems that plague the U.S.: we need a President who has the courage, intelligence, capabilities and qualities for leadership of Hendrik Verwoerd...
Black Africa's Image. Basic to Verwoerd's policies is the argument that black Africans cannot govern themselves, much less the whites. It is an argument that most white South Africans are more than ready to believe. Every time there is a crisis in the Congo or bloodshed in Nigeria, the whites nod knowingly and tell each other that "you can't expect anything else from the bloody kaffirs." Kwame Nkrumah's tyrannical rule over Ghana was hailed as proof that Africans were still too uncivilized to run their own affairs, but when he was overthrown...