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	B.J. Vorster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vorster retired as Prime Minister in 1978, after twelve years in office, and was succeeded by P.W. Botha, a hardliner who nevertheless began the first reforms to moderate the apartheid system.
		Vorster's past as a draft-dodger and Nazi sympathizer came back to haunt him.
		Vorster followed White public opinion in South Africa by supporting Rhodesia publicly, but was unwilling to alienate important political allies in the United States by extending diplomatic recognition to Rhodesia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Vorster

	Descendants of Jan Vorster - 1695 - pafg39.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		John Musgrave Vorster was born 24 Nov 1930.
		John Gilbert Vorster ( Barend Izak, Hendrik Adriaan, Barend Izak, Barend Johannes, Barend Johannes, Barend, Jan) was born 1883 in Graaf Reinett.
		Marthinus Wessel Vorster was born 9 Apr 1908.
	generalupdate.rau.ac.za /genealogy/vorster/descendan/pafg39.htm

	vorster - pafg109.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Roaan Zerwick Vorster was born on 5 Jan 1971 in London, England.
		Anmar Vorster was born on 11 May 1962 in Johannesburg.
		Benhardt Vorster was born on 29 Oct 1975 in London, England.
	general.rau.ac.za /genealogy/vorster/janvorster/pafg109.htm

	vorster - pafg161 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		David Alwyn Jacobus Vorster [ Parents ] was born on 18 May 1879 in Burgersdorp.
		Hendrik Carel Vorster was born on 11 Apr 1886.
		Leonora Vorster was born on 29 Apr 1917.
	www.vorster.net /janvorster/pafg161.htm

	Vorster, Balthazar Johannes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
		Vorster also granted “independence” to Transkei as a first step in apartheid’s “separate development.” After resigning for health reasons in 1978 to become State President, he was forced to resign the latter post when implicated (1979) in a scandal.
		Vorster attempted a somewhat more conciliatory foreign policy, pressing Rhodesia& Ian Smith to negotiate with Mozambique and seeking a solution to international demands for South West Africa’s independence.
		In 1958, Vorster was made deputy minister in Hendrik Verwoerd ’s cabinet.
	www.bartleby.com /65/vo/Vorster.html

	South Africa - The ANC and the PAC Turn to Violence
		The government campaign to crush internal resistance was orchestrated by John Vorster, then minister of justice, and by General Hendrik J. (H.J.) van den Bergh, head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS).
		Because of his success in defeating the ANC and the PAC, John Vorster became prime minister of South Africa in 1966 when Verwoerd was assassinated by a coloured parliamentary messenger.
		Vorster and van den Bergh used new security legislation to put down the resistance.
	countrystudies.us /south-africa/27.htm

	A Lifetime Ago (washingtonpost.com)
		It's almost as if he can hear them, the blinking of those eyes, "those eyelashes crashing at the door." And that smell, that cologne: There in the cell inside the John Vorster Square police lockup, van Niekerk's scent hits Morobe, and almost makes him sick.
		In 1998, van Niekerk told the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he participated in the 1988 electric-shock torture that killed anti-apartheid activist Stanza Bopape at John Vorster, according to commission records.
		He was a leader of the Soweto uprising of 1976, when protests erupted throughout South Africa and landed him at John Vorster after six months on the run.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A51870-2004Apr28?language=printer

	Sunday Times - millennium - 02 January 2000
		Stockily built with old-world manners, Luthuli was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize, which John Vorster grudgingly allowed him to travel to Norway to receive, "notwithstanding the fact that the government fully realises that the award was not made on merit".
		A man with Nazi sympathies often depicted in jackboots by cartoonists, Vorster, who said he "knew all about the terrors of solitary confinement", was ultimately responsible for the introduction of lengthy detentions without trial and the death of Steve Biko and thousands of others who found themselves at the mercy of police in prisons.
		He and John Vorster, then Minister of Justice in charge of the police, promptly declared a state of emergency and banned the ANC and PAC.
	www.suntimes.co.za /2000/01/02/millennium/mil17.htm

	:: JOBURG POLICE STATION BANISHES APARTHEID BLUES ::
		To mark the end of the John Vorster era, the two-metre bronze bust of Vorster, bearing a brass plaque emblazoned with "Eendrag maak mag/Unity is strength", was, on 23 September 1997, moved from the police station entrance to the Police Museum in Pretoria.
		I think the connotation of John Vorster Square exists in the minds and hearts of victims who were detained here during the apartheid era, its no longer centred on the building itself," Botha says.
		John Vorster Square was indeed a true embodiment of the violence of the apartheid system, but now that belongs to the past."
	www.igoli.org /2004/aug/aug1_vorster.stm

	M a i n C h r o n o l o g y
		John Vorster reacts by indicating that as the judgment is only advisory, it can not be considered binding, and South Africa will act as it sees fit.
		John Vorster visits Malawi and stresses the desire for continued contact and co-operation between South Africa and Malawi, despite existing differences in outlook.
		John Vorster hold talks in Paris with the French Prime minister covering French investments in South Africa.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/chronology/main-chronology-1970s.html

	John Vorster Tower
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	B.J. Vorster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balthazar Johannes Vorster (December 13, 1915- September 10, 1983), better known as John Vorster, was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978, and President from 1978 to 1979.
		Vorster retired as Prime Minister in 1978, after twelve years in office, and was succeeded by P.W. Botha, a hardliner who nevertheless began the first reforms to moderate the apartheid system.
		In Vorster's younger years, he attracted notoriety by opposing South Africa's intervention on the side of the Allies in World War II, and speaking favourably of the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, whose dictatorial government he regarded as a better model for South Africa than the Westminster parliamentary (cabinet) system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/B.J._Vorster (527 words)

	Total onslaught as police fire teargas on Oscar de Oliviera and Naomi Klein : IMC-SA
		The IFG delegates are joining the Anti Privatisation Forum in a march to Thabo Mbeki Square (formerly the famous John Vorster Square).
		Moments ago, the marchers were attempting to leave the university campus on route to the police station where over 250 members of the Soldiers Forum and Landless Peoples Movement (LPM) were until yesterday detained...
		Moments ago, the marchers were attempting to leave the university campus on route to the police station where over 250 members of the Soldiers Forum and Landless Peoples Movement (LPM) were until yesterday detained.
	www.southafrica.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1722 (527 words)

	Mail&Guardian: Black Christ painting found in a basement
		HE Black Christ, a banned painting showing Chief Albert Luthuli being crucified by John Vorster and Hendrik Verwoerd, has been recovered in Britain 30 years after it was lost by the Anglican church.
		Canon John Collins, an anti-apartheid crusader who worked at St Paul's, used his contacts in South Africa to smuggle the painting to Britain at a time when Harrison was being repeatedly interrogated and beaten by the South African police.
		He asked one of Cape Town's newspapers for photographs of Luthuli, Vorster and Verwoerd, telling them he was working on a special project on great leaders.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/art/reviews/97jul/31jul-blackchrist.html (527 words)

	ipedia.com: Neil Aggett Article
		According to the South African security police, he committed suicide while held at the John Vorster Square police station, by h...
		According to the South African security police, he committed suicide while held at the John Vorster Square police station, by hanging himself with a scarf that a friend had knitted for him, making him the first "white" to die in their custody.
	www.ipedia.com /neil_aggett.html (527 words)

	The Demise of the Conservative Party
		It caused the later CP members for thirteen years to condone everything the NP did under John Vorster, and later under PW Botha, while these NP leaders were deviating from the road of Afrikaner nationalism and taking decisions on alien principles, which paved the way for the eventual takeover by the ANC in 1994.
		They were completely involved in the subversion of Rhodesia, and supported every step of John Vorster, and later PW Botha to sell out Rhodesia.
		Lichtenburg, where a minister of PW Botha, Dr Ferdi Hartzenberg, Pietersburg where dr Willie Snyman was the candidate and Nigel, where John Vorster himself had been MP were close to falling to the HNP.
	www.hnp.org.za /English/CP/demise1.htm (527 words)

	John Vorster - South Africa: As far as criticism is concerned, w
		John Vorster - South Africa: As far as criticism is concerned, w
		As far as criticism is concerned, we don't resent that unless it is absolutely biased, as it is in most cases.
	www.spicyquotes.com /html/John_Vorster_South_Africa.html (527 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Vorster Balthazar Johannes
		Vorster, Balthazar Johannes (1915-83), prime minister (1966-78) and president (1978-79) of South Africa.
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Vorster Balthazar Johannes
		Search Amazon.com for books about your topic, "Vorster Balthazar Johannes"
	encarta.msn.com /Vorster_Balthazar_Johannes.html (527 words)

	Balthazar Johannes Vorster
		B.J. Vorster was born in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape in 1915 and was the fifteenth son of a wealthy sheep farmer.
		Three years later Vorster was given the portfolio of Justice, combining it with that of Police and Prisons in 1966.
		Vorster was instrumental in the founding of the anti-British Ossewa-Brandwag, and also became a general in its paramilitary wing.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/vorster-bj.htm (212 words)

	63065. Vorster, John. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
		John Vorster (1915–1983), South African politician, prime minister.
		Click here to download the Dictionary and Thesaurus.
	www.bartleby.com /66/65/63065.html (212 words)

	Vorster, John --� Britannica Concise Encyclopedia�Online Article
		"Vorster, John" Britannica Concise Encyclopedia from Encyclopædia Britannica.
		Balthazar Johannes Vorster Vorster was arrested in 1942 for supporting Germany in World War II.
		Learn about the Presidency of John Adams, who was the second man to hold the office of U.S. President and the first to occupy the newly constructed White House.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?eu=407478 (212 words)

	John Rose: Israel - The Hijack State (Arming of Israel)
		Vorster had arrived to deepen links between the countries’ two defence industries.
		Vorster had been interned as a Nazi during the Second World War.
		The biographer of Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, recalled that this “periphery pact” was encouraged by John Foster Dulles, the US Secretary of State.
	www.marxists.de /middleast/rose/2-arming.htm (212 words)

	aartists
		Durno's Welcome The World painting will feature on a massive 20x20 metre billboard at John Vorster Square in Johannesburg.
		This will feature at John Vorster Square on a billboard measuring a significant 20mx20m.
		Khumalo is based in the Eastern Cape, while Durno, who lives in Johannesburg, is originally from East London.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2002/11/19/southafrica/AARTISTS.HTM (212 words)

	Indicator - The University of Natal
		Vorster, Kissinger and ultimately the British managers of Zimbabwe’s transition together hoped for a typical neocolonial solution, in which property rights would be the foundation of a new constitution, willing-seller/willing-buyer land policy would allow rural social relations to be undisturbed and nationalisation of productive economic activity would be kept to a minimum.
		In 1976, Ian Smith was summoned to meet John Vorster and Henry Kissinger in Pretoria.
		In an uncomfortable encounter, the Rhodesian prime minister was told by the South African premier and the US Secretary of State that his dream of delaying black majority rule in Zimbabwe for ‘a thousand years’ was over.
	www.nu.ac.za /indicator/Vol19No1/19.1_feature.htm (212 words)

	NLC press statement
		After spending two nights in prison, 77 members of the Landless People's Movement (LPM) and the National Land Committee (NLC) were released from John Vorster Square on warning to appear in court, with an option instead of each paying a R100 'admission of guilt' fine.
		A march opposing the limitations on basic rights of expression and assembly is planned for this afternoon (Saturday 24 August) from Wits University to John Vorster Square (Johannesburg Central police station).
		The LPM will not be deterred by this brutal show of force by the state.
	www.nlc.co.za /wssd/press0224augustrelease.htm (212 words)

	113-1971
		The church leaders Nangolo Leonard Auala, supported by Petrus Shipena and Vilho Kaulinge, and Paulus Gowaseb, supported by Elifas Eiseb, Albertus Maasdorp and G�nther Reeh, meet SA Prime Minister John Vorster in Windhoek.
		Vorster and the SA Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hilgard Muller, reject the court ruling, as do the vast majority of "whites" in SWA.
		Senior Headman Justus Garo�b of the Damara Council and Josephat Gawanab of the Damara Executive Committee (DEC) are sworn in by SA as leaders of the Dama.
	www.klausdierks.com /Chronology/113.htm (212 words)

	Lyn Paul website: Lyn Paul then ... 1968
		Cricket: When it is announced that Basil D'Oliviera will be joining the England cricket team on their Winter tour of South Africa, the South African Prime Minister John Vorster responds by cancelling the tour.
		John and Cynthia Lennon get divorced on 8th December.
		The UK Prime Minister announces cuts in public spending on 16th January.
	www.lynpaulwebsite.org /Then-1968.htm (212 words)

	John McCabe and Australia
		John McCabe's musical links with Australia (a country which has fascinated him since childhood readings about the Burke and Wills expedition) date from his first visit, to the New England Festival in Armidale, New South Wales, in 1980, when he also gave recitals in Sydney, Brisbane, and other towns in New South Wales and Queensland.
		In August 1998, John McCabe made his 8th visit to Australia, this time as a visiting lecturer in composition at the Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne, for their Young Composer Programme.
		The Australian ensemble Ku-Ring-Gai Virtuosi performed the work in Sydney on September 4th, and then in a Musica Viva tour, with performances in three further New South Wales towns: Lismore (September 9th), Wagga Wagga (September 12th), and Bateman's Bay (September 13th).
	www.johnmccabe.com /news/australia.htm (212 words)

	Balthazar Johannes Vorster Biography / Biography of Balthazar Johannes Vorster Biography Biography
		Balthazar Vorster was born on April 11, 1915, in the rural area of Jamestown in the Eastern Province.
		Vorster graduated in 1938 and became registrar (judge's clerk) to the judge president of the Cape Provincial Division of the Sou.....
		Balthazar Johannes Vorster (1915-1983) was a South African political leader who emerged as a major figure in Afrikaner nationalism.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-balthazar-johannes-vorster (238 words)

	Daily Mail&Guardian: With The Lid Off
		Off we went, up stairs and down grimy corridors, till we were shown into a small office that smelled like the charge room at John Vorster Square.
		South Africa's xenophobia catches up with JOHN MATSHIKIZA in Abidjan, after some Ivoirien nationals were manhandled back on to the aircraft that brought them to Johannesburg, and sent back home.
		Instead, a man with shoulders like Table Mountain suddenly appeared and told us unsmilingly to follow him.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/features/with_the_lid_off/mar12.html (238 words)

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