Word: hendrik
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...When Hendrik Verwoerd Jr. was a young man, his father served as South Africa's Prime Minister. During his years in office -- 1958 to 1966 -- Hendrik Sr. sought to implement "grand apartheid," a system intended to preserve a mighty white nation occupying 87% of the land, with blacks living in small "homelands" in the rest of the territory...
...Today Hendrik Jr., 50, sits in a modest storefront in the dusty Transvaal farming village of Morgenzon, trying to persuade fellow whites, in essence, to cut their losses and establish their own small homeland. As a leader of an Afrikaner nationalist group called the Orange Workers, he advocates setting up a separate state, provisionally named Afrikanerland, on roughly 13% of South Africa's territory. Of his father's failed dream, Verwoerd shrugs and says, "People lost faith...
...main pillars of Hendrik Verwoerd's Grand Apartheid remain firmly in place, with no explicit commitment to remove them: the Population Registration Act still legally classifies people by race; the Group Areas Act still bars blacks from residing in most white neighborhoods or from sending their children to whites-only government schools; land acts dating back to 1913 and 1936 still reserve 87% of South Africa's land to whites, who today constitute 14% of the population...