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...Hendrik Verwoerd, the leaders of South Africa's ruling Nationalist Party met in the Parliament building in Cape Town to choose his successor. There were half a dozen candidates for the job, but it was never much of a race. The obvious front runner was beefy Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 50, Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, and boss of the massive security organization that enforced South African apartheid...
...Vorster (pronounced Force-ter) had admitted drawbacks. He suffers from a heart condition that prevents him from traveling by airplane. He has had no experience in foreign affairs, has in fact been outside South Africa only once, on a vacation to South America. In addition, his views on race problems were considered extremist, even by some members of his own racist party. But no other South African could match the support that Vorster enjoyed from the combined forces of the party's large right wing, its secret Broederbond (Brotherhood) inner sanctum, and the Dutch Reformed Church, in which Vorster...
...most likely to succeed, however, seemed to be Johannes Balthazar Vorster, 50, the burly Justice Minister who organized Verwoerd's tough, efficient police force and who represents to hundreds of thousands of Afrikaners the thing they want most: security. To haters of apartheid, Vorster would be bad news. He is the hero of the party's militant extreme right wing, which has long thought Verwoerd was doing too much for the blacks...
...anyone too critical of its policies confined to his home for years, forbid newspapers to quote him on any subject. Backing up the laws is a tough, efficient police force, plus a military and paramilitary organization specifically trained to put down insurrection. Top cop is Justice Minister Johannes Balthazar Vorster, 50, a devout Nationalist whose background includes two years in a South African internment camp for pro-Nazi activities...
...minority centered around the English-speaking universities. As it has done in the past with the Liberal Party and the Defense and Aid Fund, the South African government hopes, by removing the NUSAS leaders, to intimidate the student union's members and brand the whole body as communist. Though Vorster has admitted (with unusual sophistication) that all members of NUSAS were not communists, he has maintained all communists were once members of NUSAS...