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National, led by White Supremacist Premier Hendrik Verwoerd: United, chief "opposition" group only slightly less racist; Progressive, Liberal, National Union, three splinter groups that urge more rights for the blacks...
Died. David Beresford Pratt, 54, wealthy, English-born Transvaal farmer and would-be assassin who in April 1960 fired two bullets into the head of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd (who recovered), was later declared by a court to be "unfit" to stand trial; by his own hand (strangulation with a bed sheet); in a Bloemfontein, South Africa, mental institution...
More than ever, the driving force in South Africa is Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Confidently he has called new general elections for October, 18 months ahead of schedule. Among the great majority of South African whites who fearfully cling to Verwoerd's white supremacy policies in the face of Africa's "black wave of freedom," the firm expectation is that Verwoerd will win handily. His National Party has an excellent chance of increasing its already absolute majority in the stinkwood-paneled chamber of South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town. The three opposition parties are weak...
...Africa's gold and foreign exchange reserves have risen by $42.5 million in the past nine weeks. Gold production, the country's most important industry, is booming. The blacks are cowed and quiet, their leaders driven deep underground or into the safety of emigration. All the while, Verwoerd is implementing measures to further strengthen his government and deepen the entrenchment of his apartheid policies. Among his latest steps...
Faced with a steady decline in its foreign-exchange reserves as nervous investors pulled their money out of South Africa, Prime Minister Verwoerd's government last week took drastic measures...