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...greater shift in South African policy towards Blacks. That has not happened. He said that a friendly alliance with South Africa had its roots in World War II, when South Africa served as a wartime ally. In reality, half of the important cabinet members, including former Prime Minister John Vorster, refused to assist in the war against the Nazis...
Following the Kissinger lead, South African Prime Minister John Vorster--who had been imprisoned during World War II for his out-spoken support for Nazi Germany--paid an official visit to Israel in May 1976. The Economist reported that the South African head of state "signed a row of economic and military collaboration agreements that centered on South Africa's willingness to finance some of Israel's costlier military projects. Israel was to reciprocate by supplying weapon systems and training...
...Vorster trip also resulted in the creation of a Joint Ministerial Committee to promote closer economic ties between the two nations. South Africa made an exception to its ordinarily strict investment regulations by allowing South African Jews to invest up to $60 million in Israel. More official economic ties were strengthened in 1980 when the apartheid government extended a $200 million loan to Israel and sold $25 million in Israeli bonds in South Africa...
DIED. Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 67, former Prime Minister and President of South Africa, known as a stern enforcer of apartheid; of a pulmonary embolism; in Tygerberg. Interned during World War II for membership in a pro-Nazi movement, Vorster was named Justice Minister in 1961 and imposed such policies as "banning," a form of house arrest, and detention of dissidents without trial. Elected Prime Minister after the 1966 assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, Vorster held sway for 13 tumultuous years, his racist government increasingly opposed by riots at home and pressure from abroad. He resigned as Prime Minister...
...awayed the country to Nazism. Although a close and bitter battle in the South African Parliament brought the country into the war on the Allied side, a few Afrikaner paramilitary splinter groups continued to fight for a republic similar to Nazi Germany. The last South African prime minister, John Vorster, was jailed during the war as a Nazi sympathizer...