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1901-1966

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

… Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 8 … was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd. His father was a…

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1969

Solomon Modipane

… Silverton police station.He died three days later in the HF Verwoerd Hospital.The head of the CID said that Mr Modipane …

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1890-1968

Eric Hendrik Louw

… South Africa at the United Nations. He accompanied  H.F. Verwoerd  to the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ …

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1969

Nicodemus Kgoathe

… January 1969 was taken from the Silverton police cells to HF Verwoerd hospital in Pretoria,where he died on 4th of …

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1925-2005

Fihla Christmas Tinto

… in a State of Emergency being declared by the  H.F. Verwoerd government. In 1961 Tinto was amongst the delegates …

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1918-2008

David Hepburn Craighead

… Chairman (for the Transvaal) of the LPSA until 1965. H.F. Verwoerd's government did not ban the Liberal Party, but …

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1894-1980

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger

… and was one of very few people who openly criticized  H.F. Verwoerd . In 1947 she suggested to Smuts that the permanent …

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Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa

… state came into the open in the early 1950s when [H.F.] Verwoerd summoned chiefs, including Kgosi Moila, to … passed it in your Parliament?” I was told to…

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1915-1972

William Frederick Nkomo

… to their welfare. Nkomo died of cardiac arrest at the H.F. Verwoerd Hospital in Pretoria and was buried next to his …

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1920-1996

Alcott Skei Gwentshe

… the signatures of President CR Swart , Prime Minister HF Verwoerd , and Minister MDC de Wet Nel.It was noted that …

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1934-2006

Vusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make

… order was withdrawn on 16 August 1967. He died at the HF Verwoerd hospital in Pretoria on 15 April 2006 at the age …

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14 January1918-1999

Dimitri Tsafendas

… messenger who assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on 06 September 1966 by stabbing him four times with … take violent action against the apartheid…

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1915-2004

David Wilcox Bopape

… in unprovoked attacks by the police. After  Dr. H.F. Verwoerd  introduced Bantu Education Bopape together with …

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1909-1961

David Pratt

… suicide three times. On 9 April 1960, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd , the South African Prime Minister of from 1958 to … of 50 years of the Union of South Africa…

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1919-2008

Es’kia Mphahlele

… Commission on Native Education, inspired by Dr. H.F. Verwoerd , the recently elected National Party’s Minister of …

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1915-1983

B J Vorster [John Vorster]

… the apartheid policies of arch-ideologist Hendrik Verwoerd , his predecessor, curtailing the rights of Blacks … every sphere of life. But he was also more…

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1947

Dr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy

… activism as a student. On 6 September 1966, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd , the prime minister of South Africa, the architect of apartheid was assassinated. Soon…

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1922-2014

Stanley Huette Uys

… racist revolution. The Prime Minister, Dr Hendrik Verwoerd , himself a former editor, was infuriated to see his … following disclosures of emotional…

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1927-2011

Professor Carel Boshoff

… During this time he had met  J G Strijdom  and  H F Verwoerd  who frequently visited his father. In 1954, he married Anna, H F Verwoerd’s daughter. In 1948…

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1928-2013

Judge Jan Hendrik Steyn

… in a meeting in 1977 in Mulder's office in the then H.F Verwoerd Building with Steyn and his legal team, led by D.P. …

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1894-1974

William George Ballinger

… a success and he remained a Senate until 1960,when the Verwoerd government stopped all Africans representation in …

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1894-1982

Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart

… World War (1939-1945) he, together with men such as H.F. Verwoerd*, J.G. Strijdom and E.H. Louw, strongly opposed the …

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1956

Stephen Marais

… is English, my ouma-taal Afrikaans. He was nine when Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966 and afterwards it was his  Ouma who told him  no uncertain terms that…

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1916-2006

Pieter Willem Botha

… in Parliament in 1956. In October 1958 Dr H. F. Verwoerd appointed Botha as Deputy Minister of Internal … on 31 May 1961. In August of that year Prime…

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1904-1983

Alex Hepple

… by the Nationalist government. He was the author of Verwoerd (Pelican, 1967) and South Africa: a political and …

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1927-2018

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe

… but Vorster refused. She had also previously challenged Verwoerd to release her partner but parliament and the …

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1958-2004

Martin Tose

… attending public meetings. Tose was born when Dr Hendrik Verwoerd was chosen to succeed the country’s late Prime …

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1910-1974

Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd

… as the Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.  In 1966 the AEU disaffiliated with TUCSA, …

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1979

Lewis Baker

… . In 1961 before South Africa became a Republic under the Verwoerd government, a State of Emergency was declared.  …

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1920-1964

Vuyisile Mini

… songs of the 1950's, ‘Pasopa nansi 'ndondemnyama we Verwoerd ', (‘Look out, Verwoerd, here are the Black people'). In 1961 Mini was one …

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