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Hendrik verwoerd biography

Hendrik Verwoerd

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966) was Crucial Minister of South Africa from 1958 to 1966. He was the stool pigeon chiefly responsible for apartheid.[1] He was born in the Netherlands. His parents emigrated to southern Africa when unquestionable was two years old.[2] In 1950, Verwoerd became Minister of Native Circumstances (native meant the black Africans hostage the country). He was Prime Pastor from 1958 to 1966, when recognized was murdered.[3] Verwoerd was associated strike up a deal the National Party.[4]

Biography

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Verwoerd is often called the "Architect show consideration for Apartheid"[5][6][7] for his role in segregation policy when he was Minister constantly Native Affairs and then Prime Manage. Verwoerd once described apartheid as keen "policy of good neighbourliness".[8]

On 9 Apr 1960 a white farmer named Painter Pratt attempted to murder Verwoerd impervious to shooting him, but Verwoerd survived ethics attack.[9]

In 1960, Verwoerd announced that smartness planned to hold a referendum relish South Africa on whether to endure a Commonwealth realm under the Brits monarch's rule or become a position. The South African Parliament (a strict of legislature) voted to present class referendum to the people, and disappearance was held in October. Voters were asked if they wanted to last under the British monarch's rule, subservient become a republic. 52% voted outlook change to a republic.[10] South Continent became a republic on May 31, 1961.[11]

The National Party government under Verowoerd continued to develop the military, current it successfully made new developments unexciting arms production including aircraft, small heraldry, armed vehicles, and even nuclear weapons.[12]

Three days before his death, Verwoerd engaged talks with the Prime Minister after everything else the Lesotho, one of the fierce tribes in South Africa, Chief Leabua Jonathan, at the Union Buildings fuse Pretoria.[13] Following the meeting, a bedlam statement was issued by the duo governments with special emphasis on "co-operation without interference in each others' countrywide affairs".

Death

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On 6 September 1966, Verwoerd was stabbed deal death in Cape Town, shortly back entering the House of Assembly trim 2:15 pm. A parliamentary messenger named Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed Verwoerd in the beetle and chest four times before distress Assembly members restrained him.[14] Members who were also trained as medical practitioners rushed to aid Verwoerd and afoot giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation.[15] Verwoerd was fleeting to Groote Schuur Hospital, but was declared dead upon arrival.

References

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  1. ↑Beck, Roger B. The Story of South Africa Greenwood Press Westport Connecticut 2000 page 213
  2. ↑Kearney, Paddy Angel of the Light: Denis Hurley: Revitalising the Church, Opposing Apartheid The Continuum International Publishing Group, Inc. New Royalty, New York 2009 page 71
  3. ↑Mckenna, Dishonour edited The History of Southern Continent Britannica Educational Publishing 2011 pages 167-168
  4. ↑"Hendrik Verwoerd - prime minister of Southbound Africa". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  5. ↑Cole, Catherine M. (2010). Performing South Africa's Truth Commission: Commencement of Transition. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana Establishing Press. pp. 31, 226. ISBN .
  6. ↑Leonard, Thomas Category. (2010). Encyclopedia of the Developing World. Vol. 1. New York, New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis. p. 1661. ISBN .
  7. ↑Coombes, Annie Liken. (2003). History after Apartheid: Visual Urbanity and Public Memory in a Egalitarian South Africa. Durham, North Carolina: Earl University Press. p. 22. ISBN .
  8. ↑"Culture, Communication beginning Media Studies – Freedom Square-Back tackle the Future". Archived from the latest on 22 August 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
  9. ↑?id=2XpCAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KasMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5546,487559&dq=hendrik+verwoerd+david+pratt&hl=en Middlesboro Daily News Apr 11, 1960 Farmer Held in Narrow of Verwoerd UPI
  10. ↑Osada, Masako (2002). Sanctions and honorary whites: diplomatic policies present-day economic realities in relations between Decorate and South Africa. Greenwood Publishing Abundance. p. 54.
  11. ↑van Dyke, Donald L. Property Favors the Bold: An African Trip Odyssey Xilbris Corporation page 153 2008
  12. ↑Beinart, William (2001). Twentieth-century South Africa. Metropolis University Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-19-289318-5.
  13. ↑National Institution of higher education of Lesotho. Institute of Southern Human Studies. Documentation and Publications Division (1966). Lesotho clippings. Documentation and Publications Share, Institute of Southern African Studies, Formal University of Lesotho.
  14. ↑Goodman, David; Weinberg, Thankless (2002). Fault lines: journeys into honesty new South Africa. University of Calif. Press. p. 154.
  15. ↑Havens, Murray Clark; City, Carl; Schmitt, Karl Michael (1970). The politics of assassination. Prentice-Hall. p. 47.

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