Word: verwoerds
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...black man to serve Him by serving the whites, hewing wood and drawing water. For generations the Dutch Reformed Church has wrapped segregation in a mantle of scriptural self-righteousness ("If God had wanted the races to mix, he would have said so in the Bible"). President Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd is a regular churchgoer who, like most of his Nationalist Party colleagues, acts as if he is following the will of God in keeping the black man down...
...courage consists merely in advocating a relaxation of apartheid within a context of "differentiation" shows something of the climate of South Africa. But that the declaration was made at all, by the leading spiritual and moral power among the traditionally segregationist Afrikaners, is something of a milestone. Premier Verwoerd was reported to be both worried and irate. His toned-down views were presumably voiced by Die Transvaler, the Nationalist newspaper he once edited himself. "No matter how beautiful were the thoughts expressed by the consultation," editorialized the paper, "their application would lead to the collapse of Christianity in South Africa...
There followed a period of rethinking among the Whites. Some supporters of apartheid called for a "new deal" and a drastic revision of discriminatory legislation. Verwoerd's position as leader of the Nationalist Party was said to be weakening...
...three bullets from a pistol aimed by a wealthy White framer-businessman ended all that. David Pratt's attempt on Verwoerd's life consolidated Nationalist Afrikanerdom because Verwoerd became a martyr, prepared to sacrifice his life in his crusade for apartheid and White rule...
...Verwoerd must struggle on, now that he is committed to carry apartheid to its conclusion. He must try to keep the two great. White sections--Afrikaners and Englishmen--together. He must try to get South Africa readmitted to the Commonwealth as a racist republic. He must meet the challenge of economic, and perhaps, a physical intervention from the Black states of Africa...