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Verwoerd

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Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch . 1901--66, South African statesman, born in the Netherlands: prime minister of South Africa (1958--66) and the principal architect of the apartheid system: assassinated


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The attempted assassination of Verwoerd was followed by several massacres after peaceful demonstrations .
Little in recent times has resonated more convincingly with the painful and humiliating circumstances which prevailed in the regimes of [Hendrik] Verwoerd, [John] Vorster and P.
Verwoerd to keep blacks from ever glimpsing the "greener pastures" of white South Africa, to an equal access system has been fraught with complications.
 
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