Word: verwoerds
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...Verwoerd's regime has spent millions of dollars moving Africans out of Johannesburg's squalid shantytown "locations" and into new government housing in townships farther from the city. It has also built hundreds of schools, can point to the fact that the African literacy rate has nearly doubled in the past decade. But, points out a Johannesburg professor, "relative to its resources, South Africa does less for the African than any other country...
...white people are happy with Verwoerd's state of affairs. There is a vocal minority of racists even more extremist than he is, who accuse him of doing too much for the "bloody kaffirs." His regime is widely criticized, moreover, for its refusal to allow television in South Africa-a restriction in tended both to keep out foreign "liberalist" programs (such as I Spy) and to protect the Afrikaans language against the incursions of English (there are no packaged shows in Afrikaans). A recent opinion poll showed that two-thirds of all white South Africans want TV, but Minister...
Many whites, of course, are opposed to apartheid; in 1960 Verwoerd survived an assassination attempt by an anti-apartheid white farmer who shot him in the ear and jowl at a Johannesburg cattle show. But the opposition
Doughty Helen. Verwoerd has never been stronger, in fact. Swallowing his old hatred of British South Africans, he has ventured into such English-speaking bastions as Durban to woo support for his policies, and his theme that all whites must unite behind him or be dispossessed by the Bantu usually gets a standing ovation and cries of "Hear, hear!" In Parliament, the once powerful United Party has been reduced to 39 seats. As an opposition party, Verwoerd once described it as "nothingness-both topless and bottomless." He is not far off. Its leader, Sir De Villiers Graaff, offers vague motions...
...doughty Johannesburg housewife who is the Progressive Party's only member in Parliament. Apartheid is still attacked in the English-language press, which has somehow managed to maintain a tradition of obstinate opposition to the racist pattern, but the attacks are losing their sting. Their readers, impressed by Verwoerd's successful pacification of the country since the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, no longer want to read about the injustices of his methods...