Word: verwoerds
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...blacks had decided that Republic Day (May 31) would be a dramatic occasion to stage a show of strength against the harsh apartheid rules of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's racist government. Placards popped up on lampposts and shop walls. "Awupatwa" (Don't touch the job) declared the signs in Zulu. "General strike May 29, 30, 31." For the first time, black leaders had strong backing from both the Indian and colored (mulatto) communities. African Ringleader Nelson Mandela, 42, darted secretly from town to town, coordinating plans for the nationwide walkout...
...Nationalist government of South Africa solved the problems created by these different ethnic groups coming to live together through the simple expedient of keeping them as far apart as possible. "Verwoerd does not like a scrambled egg population", the Rev. Reeves said; "therefore he is trying to unscramble the eggs...
...described by the verwoerd government, Nkosi continued, apartheid calls for the eventual complete separation of the races. The present industrial areas would be inhabited only by whites, and all of the Negroes would be moved to reservations in rural locations...
...Even Verwoerd's own National Party supporters are having their doubts. Cape Town's Nationalist newspaper. Die Burger, has recently veered away from Verwoerd's extremism, argues that coloreds should be represented in Parliament by coloreds. The party's paper in Johannesburg, Die Transvaler, warned fortnight ago that South Africa must change its views about racial questions "or prepare for catastrophe...
...mounting pressures seem only to stiffen Verwoerd. "We regard the present position as very serious," he proclaimed. "We must be willing to suffer for our nation." Why, he said wonderingly, "South Africa has done more for the natives than any other country in Africa...