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Thanks, incidentally, to the United States, the final resolution was a watered-down version of the original request by the African bloc for a total economic boycott of the increasingly vicious apartheid government of Prime Minister Verwoerd. If the democracies are divided over even this mild action, African doubts of Western sincerety can only be strengthened, and justifiably...
Heartbreak at Home. Since 1950, when South Africa's Population Registration Act was passed to reinforce Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's "granite" apartheid policy, faceless inquisitors have been methodically dividing the entire population into neatly labeled groups: black, white, Asian and Colored. Designed to prevent racial "contamination" of the nation's 3,000,000 whites, the law gave the government power to list names, ancestry and accepted skin color of South Africa's 16 million citizens. In the process of compiling these human pedigrees, pigmentation commissars have reclassified thousands of dark-skinned Coloreds as blacks, thus...
Endless Repetition. The new measure, which was demanded by Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd to meet a "crisis of survival," makes last year's Sabotage Act seem tame by comparison, has already been dubbed the "No Trial" bill. It promises the death penalty for citizens who receive training in subversion abroad or urge intervention by force in South Africa. Postal authorities can open, read and hold suspicious mail. Any political suspect, without trial, can be placed in 90-day detention, which may then be endlessly repeated. Commented Justice Minister Vorster: "This is as much power as I need for existing...
Only one member of the all-white Parliament voted against the bill. Amid government jeers, the lone Progressive Party representative, brunette Helen Suzman, warned that black nationalism as well as white nationalism feeds "on this type of kragdadigheid [toughness]." Although Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd and Vorster describe the menace facing South Africa as "Communism," the bill is clearly aimed at two African nationalist groups calling themselves Poqo and Spear of the Nation. Poqo (pronounced Paw-kaw and meaning "for ourselves alone" in the Xhosa tongue) patterns itself after the dreaded Mau Mau, which terrorized Kenya in the 1950s. It first...
...exile, and house arrest. Last year it began earnestly to apply similar restrictions to its white opponents, jailing the radicals and intimidating the liberals. Through these measures the government enlarged the scope of apartheid: the system now clearly poisons the white community as it imprisons the non-whites. The Verwoerd regime has again validated the dictum that the rights of some cannot be destroyed without imperiling the rights...