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...Africa for years have been subject to many of the same restrictions as the blacks. One law forbids their sex relations with whites; another forces them to live in nonwhite areas. They cannot buy liquor without a permit, are not allowed in white hotels and restaurants. But Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's racist regime began to have second thoughts about white supremacy as applied to Asians when, a few weeks ago, it contemplated a tempting $250 million industrial contract with Japan...
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, who cannot tolerate criticism, has long been troubled by the English press, which has a daily circulation of 685,000 v. 175,000 for the Afrikaans press. Unlike the Afrikaans press, the English-language dailies boldly criticize the government, deplore apartheid, expose hypocrisy. The Johannesburg Sunday Times's Political Columnist Stanley Uys, for example, recently called Verwoerd "a mass psychologist with a massive contempt for the English-speaking masses...
...steadfast advocacy of nonviolence in leading the fight against South Africa's racial discrimination. But by giving the prize to a black who is almost unknown outside South Africa, the Nobel Committee made a clearly political award that deliberately rebuked the racial extremism of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government. Calling the award a "smack in the face," Johannesburg's die Transvaler bitterly complained about the "spirit of enmity toward a country that has in no way harmed Norway and Sweden." Luthuli was jubilant. "Thank God for it," he said. "God has answered the call...
...Save the white man in South Africa." Spotlighting the main election issue with this racist campaign slogan, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's extremist National Party last week swept to a landslide victory in South Africa's most apathetic election since the Nationalists came to power in 1948. So foregone were the election results that only 77% of the 1,800,000 eligible white voters went to the polls, the lowest percentage in memory; in the all-white House of Assembly, 70 of the 156 seats up for election went uncontested. Picking up three new seats from its main...
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's race laws: in the background is Verwoerd's recent withdrawal from British Commonwealth...