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Verbose Irrelevance. Such overblown nonsense was greeted by jeers from the opposition bench in Parliament. But even Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd himself could not have been entirely pleased. He had, after all, expected something else: a hatchet job on his press critics at home. Verwoerd had not asked for a broadside against the foreign press, nor had he requested concrete proposals of any sort...
...immediately. His party holds a wafer-thin, five-seat majority in the 65-man Parliament, and he probably will not get parliamentary support for such a move. Moreover, the British now pay preferential prices for Southern Rhodesia's staple crop of tobacco; thus, independence might be costly. Hendrik Verwoerd's government in South Africa sympathizes with Smith's policies, but Verwoerd has no desire to take on Southern Rhodesia's economic and military problems in addition...
Suzman, an anti-apartheid South African, said that Wits. University is a strong hold of opposition to the Nationalist government of Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd...
Since Mrs. Suzman and many other Verwoerd opponents are Jews, Nationalist backbenchers shifted from white supremacy to antiSemitism, shouting: "Go to Israel!" One Nationalist M.P. was more poetic. He told Mrs. Suzman, "You are a finch chirping on a thorn tree...
...sizable United Party, which basically backs apartheid but differs with the government on how it should be carried out. United Party Leader Sir de Villiers Graaff warned that the bill would alienate middle-class Africans living in the cities, who form an important buffer against the angry black underground. Verwoerd's Nationalists were unimpressed. Revolution, they figure, is unlikely in a country that spends 27% of its budget on security...