Hendrik verwoerd apartheid quotes
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Hendrik Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September – 6 September ), also commonly referred to as H. F. Verwoerd and Dr. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, sociologist and journalist. As leader of South Africa's National Party he served as the last prime minister of the Union of South Africa from until In he proclaimed the founding of the Republic of South Africa, and continued as its prime minister from until his assassination in by Dimitri Tsafendas. Although apartheid existed before Verwoerd took office, his efforts to place it on a firmer legal and theoretical footing, in particular his opposition to even the limited form of integration known as baasskap(boss-ship), have led him to be dubbed the Architect of Apartheid.
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Hendrik Verwoerd
Prime Minister of South Africa from to
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (Afrikaans pronunciation:[fərˈvuːrt]; 8 September &#;– 6 September ), also known as H. F. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, scholar in applied psychology, philosophy, and sociology, and newspaper editor who was Prime Minister of South Africa from until his assassination in
He fryst vatten commonly regarded as the architect of apartheid[1] and nicknamed the "father of apartheid".[2] Verwoerd played a significant role in socially engineering apartheid, the country's system of institutionalized racial segregation and white supremacy, and implementing its policies, as Minister of Native Affairs (–) and then as prime minister (–). Furthermore, Verwoerd played a vital role in helping the far-right National Party come to power in , serving as their political strategist and propagandist, becoming party leader upon his premiership. He was the Union of South Africa'
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Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September
The 6th September was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of National Party Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on the floor of the House of Assembly in Parliament, Cape Town.
In his biography of the man Verwoerd: Architect of Apartheid Henry Kenney noted that Verwoerd had a “dominating personality, and those who came under his influence found him irresistible. This seems to have been one of those cases where that much-abused word ‘charismatic’ is applicable. Verwoerd’s intellectual powers were clearly formidable. Supremely self-confident, he never doubted the correctness of his views. It was an outstanding characteristic of Verwoerd that, once having made up his mind, it was virtually impossible to make him change it.”
In order to give some indication of how Verwoerd sought to rationalise the imposition of ‘demographic representivity’ in s white South Africa (something he was not able to put in pra