Word: verwoerds
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...whites by the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the black-power group the Pan-Africanist Congress. Political violence over the past three years has claimed more than 10,000 lives. But until Hani, no major political leader had been assassinated since Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed in the chest by a messenger in Cape Town's parliament building...
More importantly, the International Monetary Fund has offered the South African government $10 billion in loans. This is the same broederbond-controlled government that has been in place since Hendrik Verwoerd developed the system which came to be known as apartheid...
When Hendrik Verwoerd Jr. was a young man, his father served as South Africa's Prime Minister. During his years in office -- 1958 to 1966 -- Hendrik Sr. sought to implement "grand apartheid," a system intended to preserve a mighty white nation occupying 87% of the land, with blacks living in small "homelands" in the rest of the territory...
...whites, in essence, to cut their losses and establish their own small homeland. As a leader of an Afrikaner nationalist group called the Orange Workers, he advocates setting up a separate state, provisionally named Afrikanerland, on roughly 13% of South Africa's territory. Of his father's failed dream, Verwoerd shrugs and says, "People lost faith...
...share De Klerk's vision of a multiracial society living in harmony, the idea of an all-white ministate is gaining in appeal. The Orange Workers published a detailed map proposing a territory roughly covering the former Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. Earlier, Carel Boshoff, Verwoerd's brother-in-law, proposed setting up a homeland called Orandee in the desolate northern Cape Province...