Word: verwoerds
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...sweeping are South Africa's penal codes that almost everything is against the law. Under the Prisons Act, for example, it is a criminal offense to "misrepresent" conditions in South African jails-which the Verwoerd government, of course, adjudges to be always immaculate. Last week, a court in Durban agreed. After a four-month trial, Magistrate M. E. Goodhead found Harold Strachan, 40, a bearded art teacher who has served three years as a political prisoner, guilty of building an "edifice of lies" about prison brutality. To improve its case against Strachan, the government called 56 witnesses, confiscated defense...
...conviction opens the way for prosecution of crusading Johannesburg Editor Laurence Gandar, who for years has been one of Verwoerd's most nettlesome critics. Gandar ordered his Rand Daily Mail to publish Strachan's story after a thorough check convinced him that it was true. Obviously, he should have known better...
...even play golf at all in a land where, by law, whites share the game only with whites, and nonwhites with nonwhites. Last week Sewgolum found himself the center of one of the most ludicrous episodes in the history of the sport-but about par for Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's apartheid course...
...praises of Kwame Nkrumah, and Tunisia pays tribute to "the spirit of our Habib, the great leader," but few other new nations have used their songs to glorify current heroes. South Africa's whites have even resisted, mercifully enough, the temptation to change their lovely anthem to the Verwoerd March...
...photographs of prisons or prisoners. They have also visited sources whose names had only been discussed by Gandar on the telephone, leading him to suspect that his line is being tapped. Though the Mail has been campaigning for nothing more radical than a judicial enquiry into prison practices, Verwoerd's state radio and the Afrikaans newspapers that support him regularly describe the English-language Mail as "a source for the Communist and Afro-Asian propaganda machines." Some Thanks. But the protests against the Mail come not from official sources alone. A torrent of abuse was pouring into Gandar...