Word: verwoerds
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Cheers for Hitler. With Verwoerd at the helm, Die Transvaler was less of a newspaper than a political broadsheet...
...while, Verwoerd was content to stay on at the university, first as a lecturer in applied psychology, then as chairman of the new department of sociology. But gradually he began applying his trade in the politics of the Nationalist Party. In 1933, when Nationalist Prime Minister Barry Hertzog made a pact with the South African Party's pliable Jan Christian Smuts-whom Verwoerd considered a tool of the British-he was so disgusted that he joined Afrikanerdom's ultranationalist secret society, the Broederbond (brotherhood). With a young Transvaal lawyer named Johannes Strijdom, he founded Die Transvaler, an Afrikaans...
Working together, with Strijdom as the leader and Verwoerd the brain and propagandist, the two men slowly rebuilt the Nationalist Party in their own image. In 1948, the Nationalists surged back into power, and Verwoerd became Minister of Native Affairs. It was just the place for him, and he used it to transform South Africa...
...Nationalists took office. Africans had long been denied the right to vote, compete for white jobs, live in white residential areas or buy property from whites. They could still marry whites, but extramarital intercourse between the races "was a criminal offense. But, discriminatory as they were, the laws that Verwoerd and his breeders inherited were nothing compared with the dozens of sweeping new laws they have passed since...
...Apartheid (pronounced apart-ate) is an Afrikaans word meaning separation. It is a political dogma based on the fear-not entirely unjustified-that South Africa's 12 million blacks will overwhelm its 3.4 million whites, and it is enforced only through massive and brutal police powers. But to Verwoerd, it is not simply a tool to keep the black man in his place. He sees it as a creative policy intended to allow the Bantu to develop as a true African instead of becoming an imitation white man. "Separation does not envision oppression," he proclaims...