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National, led by White Supremacist Premier Hendrik Verwoerd: United, chief "opposition" group only slightly less racist; Progressive, Liberal, National Union, three splinter groups that urge more rights for the blacks...
Died. David Beresford Pratt, 54, wealthy, English-born Transvaal farmer and would-be assassin who in April 1960 fired two bullets into the head of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd (who recovered), was later declared by a court to be "unfit" to stand trial; by his own hand (strangulation with a bed sheet); in a Bloemfontein, South Africa, mental institution...
More than ever, the driving force in South Africa is Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Confidently he has called new general elections for October, 18 months ahead of schedule. Among the great majority of South African whites who fearfully cling to Verwoerd's white supremacy policies in the face of Africa's "black wave of freedom," the firm expectation is that Verwoerd will win handily. His National Party has an excellent chance of increasing its already absolute majority in the stinkwood-paneled chamber of South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town. The three opposition parties are weak...
...blue, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government introduced a bill in parliament to open liquor stores to all natives over 18, and authorizing the establishment of cocktail bars in African locations. The police have long been urging the government to modify the antidrinking laws, arguing that a native allowed to imbibe openly might imbibe more moderately. But some observers concluded that Verwoerd was at last feeling the heavy pressure of African resentment at his harsh apartheid rules, and was trying a minor concession...
...much-heralded three-day general strike, called by the leaders of South Africa's 10,807,809 blacks to protest any change in the nation's status, was a flop. Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the man who had forged the republic and would be its boss, had canceled all police leaves, called up 5,000 armed reservists of the Citizen Force, and ordered the arrest of thousands of potential native troublemakers. As Republic Day approached, police in armored cars rumbled menacingly through native townships. At night, helicopters with searchlights hovered overhead on the lookout for illegal gatherings...