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...late, however, moderates in both major parties have worried that the doctrinaire Verwoerd might be going too far in his economically unfeasible plan to herd Africans into eight little "Bantustans" (TIME, June 1) ringing a paternalistic, all-white South Africa. But right-wingers in the opposition United Party, out of power since 1948, decided to out-apartheid the Nationalists in the next elections. They rammed through the party's convention at Bloemfontein fortnight ago a resolution against the Bantustan program-on the ground that it would reduce the size of white South Africa. Outraged, eleven liberal members of Parliament...
...process they have met with little effective political opposition. Although more liberal in other matters, the largely British-backed United Party generally supports Prime Minister Verwoerd right down the apartheid line. High-minded little groups such as Novelist Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's Liberal Party have got nowhere...
Variations on a Theme. But the whites know that their time of unquestioned domination will soon be over. South Africa's Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd himself-the ruthlessly logical racist who looks so much like a kindly Kris Kringle -has lately added a "positive" side to apartheid. "In the year 2000," he once explained in his high professorial voice, "we should expect the Bantu population to number 19 million. How will they be handled? These people must work, they must live somewhere. There is only one way out-we are faced with the choice of either giving the white...
From British-governed Basutoland and Bechuanaland, both moving gradually toward independence, come thousands of workers each year, heading for South Africa's gold mines and carrying, along with their cardboard suitcases, dangerous new ideas about African rights. To the approving cries of "Hoor! Hoor!" (Hear! Hear!), Verwoerd warned that something must be done, and that multiracial political development was no answer...
...Voice Removed. For the Union's 3,000,000 whites, the "tribulations" of which Verwoerd spoke will be small...