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Never before had the assembly chamber of the Union of South Africa's Parliament echoed with more noble sentiments, nor had Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd and his Nationalists sounded more concerned with the welfare of the country's Bantus (blacks...
...women, in South Africa had an advantage over the men: they at least did not have to carry the pass which must be signed by some white authority every time a native changes jobs or stays in another town for more than 72 hours. Recently the government of Hendrik Verwoerd, going beyond the black regimentation of his predecessors, decided to enforce more strictly the rule that all South African women over 16 should carry passes. All told, 900,000 "reference books" had been issued, and though the campaign met with protests and occasional violence, it was not until the government...
South Africa's white men do not start paying taxes until they are 21, and half pay no taxes at all if they earn less than $420 a year. But to Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, it was merely a matter of "morality." In the next five years $140 million would be needed for native schooling. The natives should pay for it. "What," cried Verwoerd, "would satisfy the highest demands of morality? Would it be to spoon-feed the natives constantly, allowing them to be beggars who go on their knees to the white man? All they have...
...Lion & the Elephant. As Minister of Native Affairs, Verwoerd palavered endlessly with tribal chiefs, endlessly exhorted the Africans: "We should live apart, as the lion and the elephant live apart." But for all his determination to drive the blacks into "native reserves," Verwoerd spent more money on them than had any other Minister of Native Affairs. The number of native children in school has almost doubled since 1953. Verwoerd boasts that South Africa spends $8.61 yearly per capita on native health and education, compared with $1.30 in the Belgian Congo and 3? in India. He was quick to add, however...
...Under Verwoerd, South Africa will continue to stand alone on its continent as the only nation or colony that does not offer even a pretense of democratic rights to its black citizens. But Verwoerd remains supremely confident that his is the only way to keep whites in Africa from drowning in a black sea. "In South Africa," he proclaimed last week, "we are being carried forward as never before by the overwhelming current of inspired nationalism which has taken hold of our people. There are forces that are unconquerable. This is one of them...