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...cost the lives of 200 Papuans and ten government troops in late 1956. At Agats sits a government post with 30 men, but its control hardly extends beyond the village limits and only 30 miles away a group of Papuans killed 50 enemies and ate them up. On Frederik Hendrik Island, 33% of all babies...
...Johannes Gerhardus Strydom has been ill for months with a heart ailment, and a doctor's report last week made it seem unlikely he could ever serve again. With new elections scheduled for April, the scramble for National Party power is likely to be between unbendingly racist Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the favorite leader of extremist Transvaal, and Dr. Theophilus DÖnges, who draws his support from the slightly more liberal Nationalists of the Cape Town area. As a compromise, party leadership may fall to Minister of Justice Charles Swart, whose most notable recent contributions to jurisprudence have been...
...effort to keep black and white strictly apart, tall, Dutch-born Minister of Native Affairs Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd recently got the Native Laws amended so that he now has control of practically every social contact between the races, even in white areas-schools, hospitals, clubs and churches. Stubbornly self-reliant Minister Verwoerd (pronounced Fairvoort) boasts that not one of his seven children has ever been bathed or put to bed by an African servant. Like most stout Boer nationalists, he holds that God intended that races be kept apart. The church clause in the new law gives him power...
...Hendrik Oort, director of the Observatory of Leiden Sc.D...
...Paul" Kruger first set them up on the slopes of the Wolkberg in 1883, the Mamatola tribesmen of the northeastern Transvaal have cultivated their sunny and windswept land in peace and contentment. Last week a convoy of 23 trucks dispatched by South Africa's Native Affairs Minister Hendrik Verwoerd rumbled up the mountain to carry the 1,200-odd Mamatola off to a new home, Metz, in a dank and inhospitable valley 30 miles to the east. The stated reason: the Mamatola's outmoded farming methods were ruining the land...