Word: verwoerds
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Keystone of the whole structure is partition of South Africa into white and black states. In Verwoerd's grand scheme, the African tribal reserves will be turned into eight separate "Bantustans," which will eventually be granted full independence as nations. "In the homelands the Bantu is No. 1 and the white...
Both Worlds. Verwoerd accepts the responsibility for helping the Bantustans get on their feet. He has already spent millions of dollars to develop their agriculture and improve their roads. He is also encouraging white industrialists to build factories on their borders. That way, he explains, African workers can work for the whites by day, return to their homelands at night, and have the best of both possible worlds...
...turned into an official Bantustan is the Transkei, a region of 16,500 square miles and 1.5 million Xhosa tribesmen in the state of Natal. With an elected Parliament of 45 members and Para mount Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief, the Transkei was granted semi-autonomy last year, and Verwoerd talks with apparent sincerity of eventual, full independence...
...newspapers throughout Europe, attracts more than 3,000 a month. Its propaganda organs beat the drums for "more white babies." Last month a Cape Town scientist declared that, with proper training, baboons could replace Africans in menial tasks-a suggestion that led the Rand Daily Mail to quip that Verwoerd would soon offer them their own Baboonstan. But so hungry is the nation for manpower that employers everywhere are forced to give non-whites ever more and ever better jobs...
...Verwoerd often boasts that the blacks of South Africa are better off than anywhere else on the continent. Economically he is right. What with decent paychecks (minimum daily wage for an unskilled laborer is $2.80) and easy credit, many an urban African can afford to buy imbuia wood furniture for his dining room, neat school uniforms for his children, and in some cases even a car for himself. Every year countless thousands of blacks from nearby countries flood into the republic looking for work-and the bright lights of the city life...