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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Venda is the third member of that "constellation" of black states envisioned by the late Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd as the keystone to the edifice of apartheid. Enacted into law in 1959, the homelands plan calls for the establishment of ten purportedly independent black states divided along tribal lines and scattered across South Africa. When complete, the scheme would crowd all of the blacks, who make up more than 80% of the South African population, onto a mere 15% of the land. The rest of the country, including most of its mineral wealth and all of its industrial regions, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Birth of a New Non-State | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...John" in that conversation was Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 63, Prime Minister of South Africa for twelve years and its President for the past nine months. The speaker was General Hendrik Van den Bergh, former head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS); his testimony is included in the third and unsparing final report of a commission appointed to investigate corruption and legal irregularities in the government of John Vorster, who in 1977 led his National Party to the greatest electoral victory in its history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Vorster Quits | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Electrodynamics in Condensed Matter: Some Particular Examples--Prof. Hendrik Casimir, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Pierce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: May 10-May 16 | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

Copenhagen and Zurich: Personal Reminiscences of Bohr and Pauli--Hendrik B.G. Casimir, president emeritus, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Science Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar April 19-April 25 | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...hinting that he has a lot more to talk about. Among the rumored topics: bribery involving U.S. and other foreign officials and disclosure of Pretoria's role in backing the Biafran rebels during the Nigerian civil war. Two weeks ago, Rhoodie had a rendezvous in Paris with General Hendrik van den Bergh, 64, former head of South Africa's notorious Bureau of State Security (BOSS), and an industrialist named Josias van Zyl, 31, who offered Rhoodie a sales job in one of his companies. What the two men wanted in return was Rhoodie's promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Rhoodie's Story | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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