Word: voort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expelled from the party last month, will formally launch a new political union this week-the Christian National Party-to challenge the Nationalists. For nearly 40 years, Hertzog has worked for apartheid. As he told 2,000 yelling, stamping followers in Pretoria, the Transvaal capital: "Die stryd duur voort"-the fight goes on. "I was expelled," he said, "not because I deviated from party principles but because I wanted to maintain the principles in their purest form...
...Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, 59, South Africa's husky, silver-haired Prime Minister, was born in The Netherlands, but at two, was taken to South Africa, where his father became a Dutch Reformed missionary. Verwoerd (pronounced Fair-voort) was educated at Cape Province's Stellenbosch University, intellectual fount of Afrikanerdom, became a professor of applied psychology, which should have given him uncommon insight into the minds of his nation's n million nonwhites...