Word: verwoerds
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...before "the winds of change." No black African nation recognizes the Verwoerd regime, and their diplomatic barriers have forced South African Airways to detour 1,000 miles around the western hump of the continent on its European flights. An international seminar on apartheid opens this week in Brazil, with 30 nations participating...
...warriors used to bounce off their forefathers' laagers, the ring of covered wagons drawn up tightly in defense. "Every time someone stands up in the United Nations and points an accusing finger at South Africa," says a South African journalist, "a few thousand more whites move over to Verwoerd's side...
Separate Doors. Under Verwoerd's apartheid laws, the "non-Europeans" are constantly reminded of a permanent inferior status. They are forbidden to ride in white trains, buses or taxis, to use white public restrooms, attend white churches, send their children to white schools, even to sit on park benches bearing the insulting words Slegs vir blankes (For whites only). They may spend their money in white stores and invest in the stock market, but to mail a letter they must enter the post office through a separate door and buy their stamps at a separate window. "South Africa," says...
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was in a very real sense a child of the conflict. He was born at the height of the fighting, in a Dutch village near Amsterdam. His grocer father was a member of a committee to help Boer refugees, and so incensed did he become at their tales of British bestiality that in 1903, the year after the war ended, he moved his family to Cape Town and became a missionary in the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1912, the Verwoerds were assigned to Bulawayo, a new British town in Southern Rhodesia, and young Henk was enrolled...
...Africa for its rightful owners, the Boers. Turning down a fat scholarship in Britain, he entered Stellenbosch University, the fountainhead of Afrikanerdom, and became South Africa's first Ph.D. in mass psychology. In 1927, he married Elizabeth Schoombee, a petite fellow student at Stellenbosch. In many ways, Betsie Verwoerd is as remarkable as her husband. Holder of an M.A. in education, she has borne him five boys and two girls-and brags that no black ever bathed them or put them...