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Hendrik Verwoerd

Posted inEquality, General

The agony of Hendrik – a trip to Verwoerdpark on Human Rights Day

by John Davenport 31 March 202131 March 2021

The Big Brain of Apartheid would not approve of the neat neighbourhood that still bears his name

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Verwoerdgate: A different take on Alistair’s faux pas

David Saks by David Saks 13 May 2015

Alistair Sparks undoubtedly put his foot in it by referring, in the context of praising Helen Zille, to Hendrik Verwoerd as a “smart” politician. Whether he likes it or not, lumping the two together, as well as including him in a list of otherwise progressively inclined white parliamentarians from the apartheid era, to some degree […]

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