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  Hendrik (Frensch) Verwoerd - Youth, Architect of apartheid, A republic, Assassination
Verwoerd is often accused of having been a student of Dr Eugen Fischer, who conceived of the theories on racial hygiene in Germany.
During Verwoerd's term in office, South Africa ceased to be a Commonwealth realm under Queen Elizabeth II known as the Union of South Africa, instead becoming a republic in 1961, known as the Republic of South Africa.
In 1966, Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the House of Assembly by Dimitri Tsafendas, a parliamentary clerk, who escaped the death penalty on the grounds of insanity, saying that a large worm in his stomach told him to kill Verwoerd.
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  Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Verwoerd was given the chance to study at the University of Oxford, but refused, on account of his anti-British dispostion, instead deciding on a round of European universities (Hamburg, Leipzig and Berlin, as many Afrikaner intellectuals before him had done).
During Verwoerd's term in office, South Africa ceased to be a Commonwealth realm under Queen Elizabeth II known as the Union of South Africa, instead becoming a republic in 1961, known as the Republic of South Africa.
In 1966, Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the House of Assembly by Dimitri Tsafendas, a parliamentary clerk, who escaped the death penalty on the grounds of insanity, saying that a large worm in his stomach told him to kill Verwoerd.
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 Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 - 6 September 1966) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 to 1966, when he was assassinated.
Unlike his predecessors, Verwoerd was not born in South Africa, but came with his parents from the Netherlands.
In 1966, Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the House of Assembly by Dimitri Tsafendas, a parliamentary clerk, who escaped the death penalty on the grounds of insanity.
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 Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd – FREE Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd Information | Encyclopedia.com: Find Hendrik Frensch ...
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (1901-1966) was the sixth prime minister of South Africa.
Hendrik Verwoerd was born near Amsterdam, Holland, on Sept. 8, 1901.
Verwoerd developed a system designed to keep the African the intellectual inferior of the white man. All African men and women were fingerprinted and forced to carry a pass containing intimate personal details.
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 Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Verwoerd fulfilled the Afrikaner dream of an independent state for South Africans; when he led the Nation towards the establishment of a Republic in 1961.
Verwoerd Airport in Port Elizabeth, as was the town of Verwoerdburg South of Pretoria and H.F. Verwoerd Hospital in Pretoria and Hendrik Verwoerd Drive in Randburg, to name a few.
Hendrik Verwoerd completed his Master's degree in 1922 and his doctorate in 1924.
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Verwoerd was a Dutch immigrant to South who wrote his doctorate in Afrikaans at Stellenbosch University.
During Verwoerd's term in office South Africa to be a Commonwealth realm known as the Union of South Africa under Queen Elizabeth II and became a republic in 1961 known as the Republic of South Africa.
In 1966 Verwoerd was stabbed to death in House of Assembly by Dimitri Tsafendas a parliamentary clerk who escaped the penalty on the grounds of insanity.
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 Verwoerd - MSN Encarta
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (Amsterdam, 8 September 1901 Cape Town, 6 September 1966) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966.
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901-66), prime minister of South Africa (1958-66).
He was assassinated in 1966—ironically, by a white who thought Verwoerd's policies toward the fl population were too liberal.
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Unlike his predecessors, Verwoerd was not born in South Africa, but came with hisparents from the Netherlands.
During Verwoerd's term in office, South Africa ceased to be a Commonwealth realm under Queen ElizabethII and became a republic in 1961.
In 1966, Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the House of Assembly by Dimitri Tsafendas,a parliamentary clerk, who escaped the death penalty on the grounds of insanity.
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Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, 1901-66, South African political leader, b.
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, the acknowledged architect of grand...
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 3 September 1958 - Verwoerd becomes PM and NP leader   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Verwoerd H.F. One of the chief architects of the policy of apartheid, Dr.
Hendrik Frensch (HF) Verwoerd, was elected leader of the National Party (NP) and assumed office as Prime Minister (PM), following the death of Adv.
Given this mandate Verwoerd went to London in March 1961 to give formal notice to the Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers that South Africa was changing from a monarchy to a republic and to argue his case to remain within the British Commonwealth.
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 Verwoerd - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch (1901-66), prime minister of South Africa (1958-66).
For the first time in a decade, crimes of violence unrelated to racial strife dominated the news, causing worldwide horror.
White supremacy became more deeply entrenched in 1966 despite the assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, which deprived the ruling Nationalist Party of its leading ideologist.
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Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 8 September 1901.
Verwoerd was also in charge of African education, which he believed should be adapted to the economic life of Africans in South Africa.
Verwoerd is often attributed the title of ‘Architect of apartheid’.
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 Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd - Wikipedia
Verwoerd kam 1902 als Kind mit seiner Familie aus den Niederlanden nach Südafrika.
Verwoerd hatte in Deutschland nationalsozialistisches Gedankengut kennengelernt und wurde von der Rassenideologie der Nationalsozialisten stark beeinflusst.
Nachfolger Verwoerds als Ministerpräsident wurde sein Justizminister Balthazar Johannes Vorster.
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 Verwoerd Hendrik Frensch: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
A harsh proponent of white supremacy, Verwoerd, in response to foreign criticism, reformulated the apartheid policy as "separate development," meaning physical segregation of the races.
When Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd came to power in South Africa in 1948, he and his...education and higher-skilled careers.
VERWOERD, HENDRIK FRENSCH hen dr k frensh f rvoort, 1901...harsh proponent of white supremacy, Verwoerd, in response to foreign criticism...life; its failure was interpreted by Verwoerd as Gods approval of his work.
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The Senate (Senaat in Afrikaans) was the upper house of the Parliament of South Africa between 1910 and 1981, and between 1994 and 1997.
The Commonwealth Realms, shown in pink A Commonwealth Realm is any one of the 16 sovereign states of the Commonwealth of Nations that recognise Queen Elizabeth II as their Queen and head of state.
Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime.
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 Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 - 6 September 1966) was Prime Minister Prime Minister quick summary:
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Dimitri tsafendas (14 january 1918 - 7 october 1999) assassinated south african prime minister hendrik verwoerd, the architect of...
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 Apartheid - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, often considered the architect of apartheid, was born in Amsterdam on 8 September 1901, six months before his parents moved to Wynberg, near Cape Town, South Africa.
Verwoerd joined the Purified Nationalist Party in 1935 as Afrikaners were attempting to unite politically and also became a member of the nativist Broederbond.
Verwoerd was assassinated on 6 September 1966, before a parliamentary session in the presence of about four hundred people.
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 South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid
Academic, politician, prime minister and ideologue, Verwoerd is remembered as the architect of the racist laws and segregation practice known across the globe as ‘grand apartheid’.
Hendrik Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, Holland on 8 September 1901.
Verwoerd became Prime Minister in 1958 on the death of J.G. Strijdom, realizing his republican dream two years later when a white referendum supported his plea for a republic.
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'''Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd''' (8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966.
The result was that South Africa simultaneously became a republic and left the Commonwealth on the 31st of May (he deliberately chose this date as a matter of symbolism, as this is when the Treaty of Vereeniging was signed and when the Union of South Africa was created) 1961.
On 16 April 1960, Verwoerd was shot and injured by David Pratt while he, as prime minister, was opening the Rand Easter Show at Milner Park, Johannesburg.
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 Verwoerd Hendrik Frensch - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch (1901-1966), academic, newspaper editor, Afrikaner nationalist, and Prime Minister of South Africa (1958-1966).
This obituary for Hendrik Verwoerd appeared in The Times on September 7, 1966.
Shortly after the 1958 elections for the House of Assembly, in which the Nationalists increased their seats from 94 to 103, Strijdom died.
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 Hofmeyr Jan Hendrik (1894-1948) - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hofmeyr, Jan Hendrik (1894-1948), South African statesman and deputy prime minister (1943-1948) to Jan Smuts, who was regarded as Smuts' political...
Hofmeyr, Jan Hendrik (1845-1909), an Afrikaner born in Cape Town, South Africa, and known as “Onze Jan”, his great achievement was to have the Dutch...
During the 1940s Verwoerd and Die Transvaaler’s “fl swamping” campaign were key to the National Party’s electoral victory over Jan Christiaan...
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 Verwoerd, Hendrik (Frensch) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Verwoerd, Hendrik (Frensch)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He banned the African National Congress (ANC) in 1960 and withdrew South Africa from the Commonwealth in 1961, making the country a republic.
Born in the Netherlands, Verwoerd was educated in South Africa, the Netherlands, and Germany.
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