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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.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/B.J._Vorster (513 words)

	Vorster, Balthazar Johannes - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1958, Vorster was made deputy minister in Hendrik Verwoerd 's cabinet.
		Vorster attempted a somewhat more conciliatory foreign policy, pressing Rhodesia's Ian Smith to negotiate with Mozambique and seeking a solution to international demands for South West Africa's independence.
		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.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/v/vorster.asp (282 words)

	B.J. Vorster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		B.J. Vorster was born in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape in 1915 and was the fifteenth son of a wealthy sheep farmer.
		Vorster was instrumental in the founding of the anti-British Ossewa-Brandwag, and also became a general in its paramilitary wing.
		Three years later Vorster was given the portfolio of Justice, combining it with that of Police and Prisons in 1966.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/vorster,bj.htm (212 words)

	:: JOBURG POLICE STATION BANISHES APARTHEID BLUES :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SINCE changing its name from John Vorster Square in September 1997 the Johannesburg Central Police Station has also revised its internal structure to banish memories of what was once one of the most feared and hated symbols of apartheid.
		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.
	www.joburg.org.za /2004/aug/aug1_vorster.stm (959 words)

	AllRefer.com - Balthazar Johannes Vorster (Southern African History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Interned for opposition to the allies in World War II (1942–44), he entered politics after the war and was elected (1953) to the South African Parliament as a Nationalist party member.
		In 1958, Vorster was made deputy minister in Hendrik Verwoerd's cabinet.
		Later, as minister of justice (1961–66), Vorster suppressed opponents of apartheid.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Vorster.html (318 words)

	B.J. Vorster: Select Speeches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Vorster had handled this portfolio at a time when hostile elements were doing everything in their power to bring the young republic to its knees, made a good impression on all sides.
		Vorster achieved from the start in his new office and the confidence that he instilled in all quarters, can undoubtedly be ascribed to the fact that he was a moderate politician who followed the middle road.
		Vorster realised that a peaceful settlement of the Rhodesian crisis was of vital importance for detente in Southern Africa.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/sources/vorster-speeches/intro.htm (14224 words)

	Connie Mulder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Vorster named him information minister in 1968 and later education minister.
		Seen as Vorster's successor, Mulder appeared to be a future prime minister.
		In 1977, however, the Muldergate Scandal ended all possibility of his holding a higher office and also made Vorster fail one year later.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Connie_Mulder (198 words)

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		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 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 rejects this completely, but it is supported as a constructive proposal by both the opposition United Party and the Progressive Party.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/chronology/main-chronology-1970s.html (6777 words)

	Brothers in arms - Israel 's secret pact with Pretoria : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Another Broederbond member and future prime minister, John Vorster, was interned in a prison camp by Jan Smuts's government during the war for his Nazi sympathies and ties to the Grey Shirt fascist militia.
		Vorster, whose army was then overrunning Angola, told his hosts that South Africa and Israel were victims of the enemies of western civilisation.
		Vorster's visit laid the ground for a collaboration that transformed the Israel-South Africa axis into a leading weapons developer and a force in the international arms trade.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2006/02/1724597.php (6084 words)

	Sunday Times Heritage
		Dr Liz Floyd was detained at John Vorster and her partner Dr Neil Aggett, died there.
		I think the connotation of John Vorster Square exists in the minds and hearts of victims who were detained here during the apartheid era, it's no longer centered on the building itself.
		His death at John Vorster Square came to light only at the TRC in March 1997 when 10 security policemen applied for amnesty with regard to his death.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /heritage/johnvorster/johnvorster01.asp (1012 words)

	Boston.com / News
		In 1608, John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.
		In 1945, Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis.
		In 1983, John Vorster, prime minister of white-ruled South Africa from 1966 to 1978, died in Cape Town at age 67.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/10/history.htm (409 words)

	Anti-Apartheid Struggle
		His vice president, Walter Mondale, told John Vorster that the United States wanted South Africa to adopt a policy of one person, one vote, a principle that the ANC upheld but that no white group in South Africa, not even those opposed to apartheid, supported.
		An official investigation determined that Vorster, together with a small group of supporters including the head of the Security Police, General H.J. van den Bergh, had secretly and illegally used government funds to manipulate the news media in South Africa and to try to purchase newspapers overseas, including the Washington Star.
		Vorster resigned his position as prime minister for the largely ceremonial post of president; his preferred successor, Connie Mulder, was purged from the National Party, and P.W. Botha, minister of defence since 1966, became prime minister.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/south_africa1.htm (9283 words)

	South Africa Consolidating Apartheid - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		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.
		Foreign investors had withdrawn their funds and white immigration had come to a halt in the immediate aftermath of Sharpeville, but Vorster's harsh measures rebuilt confidence in the security of investments and the stability of the state, and money and people returned.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/south_africa/south_africa_history_consolidating_apartheid.html (859 words)

	Welcome to the Financial Gazette Online! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Further, the sudden collapse of the Portuguese empire in Africa came as a nightmare to the Smith and John Vorster regimes, for the Mozambique border with Rhodesia and Angola’s border with Namibia were now open to nationalist guerrillas.
		Smith and Vorster realised that, under these changed political paradigms, it would enhance their fortune if they devised a formula that would yield a ceasefire.
		So it was that Vorster set in motion a policy of détente, aimed at good neighbourliness with some independent African states to the north.
	www.fingaz.co.zw /fingaz/2004/March/March11/4957.shtml (2645 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Kissinger in Southern Africa
		South African Prime Minister John Vorster appears to have threatened that if Smith did not accept majority rule he would end fuel and water supplies to Rhodesia, as well as cutting its rail links to the outside world, thus bringing the Rhodesian economy to its kness immediately.
		Vorster's aims are quite straightforward: he hopes to consolidate apartheid at home by sacrificing Rhodesia and so defusing violent conflict on his borders.
		By having Vorster play an apparently reasonable role in dismantling white minority rule in Rhodesia Kissinger may be laying the groundwork for eventual cosmetic reforms in South Africa itself.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=115435 (1015 words)

	Sunday Times - millennium - 02 January 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		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.
		In an ignominious ending, Vorster was forced to resign in the wake of the Info Scandal, in which top government officials used unauthorised funds in a failed effort to improve South Africa's image by buying foreign and local media.
	www.suntimes.co.za /2000/01/02/millennium/mil17.htm (1468 words)

	washingtonpost.com: A Lifetime Ago
		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.
		He was nervous discussing his duties at John Vorster, for the past is not quite over.
		But he acknowledges that, as a duty officer at John Vorster in the 1970s, he did often look into the cells and he probably did escort Morobe to the interrogators.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A51870-2004Apr28?language=printer (3119 words)

	September 10 - UncleWoody.org - What happened on the day I was born? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pope John Paul II arrives in Miami to begin a 10 day tour of the US.
		John Vorster, former prime minister of South Africa, dies in Cape Town at age 67.
		His brother, John Wilkes Booth, would later assassinate US president Abraham Lincoln.
	www.blamepro.com /cal/0910.htm (227 words)

	First With Dignity - The Story of Rhodesia
		At one stage the beleaguered country had only three days fuel and ammunition left after the supply was cut off by the then South African Prime Minister, John Vorster, in an attempt to curry favor with the American government.
		Vorster had been promised a lifting of pressure on South Africa by Henry Kissinger, the then 'American' Secretary of State (Kissinger was, in fact, an Austrian born Jew), in return for pressure being applied to the Rhodesian government.
		Foolishly, Vorster believed Kissinger, and applied pressure to Rhodesia, simply cutting off shipments of vital supplies and refusing to take Smith's calls when the later tried to find out what was going on.
	www.white-history.com /hwr56iv.htm (2367 words)

	1 MABALANE
		After that early in January that is when we received the message from the police that he was detained in John Vorster Square, but we never got to see him in person.
		They were coming to tell us that they wanted to see me at John Vorster Square.
		It was just after receiving the 11 o' clock news that there was someone who was arrested at John Vorster Square, someone who died who was thrown from the 11th floor of John Vorster Square and died.
	www.doj.gov.za /trc/hrvtrans/soweto/mabalane.htm (1253 words)

	ON RESUMPTION: 25TH OCTOBER 2000 - DAY 2
		You see when we got to John Vorster, he was called, he was sleeping at a place as far as that wall and he was called to a distance as far as where I'm sitting and he came to us limping.
		MR CORNELIUS: Because you see, the applicant says that he was stationed at John Vorster Square, it's possible that you saw him there, but he most definitely didn't enter into an instructing position that he was instructing who to cross-examine who and take control of the whole investigation.
		You must remember this took place in the warehouse, he was thereafter taken out the warehouse to some floor on the John Vorster Square, so this is not something that took place all in one room, which would obviously make the situation different.
	www.doj.gov.za /trc/amntrans/2000/201024jb.htm (17441 words)

	Biographies of Famous South Africans - Albert Luthuli
		Albert John Lutuli was the leader of ten million fl Africans in their non-violent campaign for civil rights in South Africa.
		He was a delegate to the International Missionary Conference in Madras in 1938 and in 1948 spent nine months on a lecture tour of the United States, sponsored by two missionary organizations.
		Stockily built with old-world manners, Lutuli 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".
	zar.co.za /luthuli.htm (649 words)

	Come Celebrate! 25 Years of the SACC: Chapter 3
		One of the first members of staff to be appointed to the SACC was the Rev John de Gruchy, now Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town and well known author of a number of theological books with special reference to South Africa.
		His appointment in September 1968 as Director of Publications and Ecumenical Studies, later to be known as Director of Communications and Studies, meant that the task of distributing the message fell mainly on his shoulders.
		Anglican Bishop John Carter writing in Seek said, "Here, then, is the stuff for Synods, Parish Councils, and Christians who are not afraid of the truth." And Professor Ben Marais of the University of the Witwatersrand was quoted in Pro Veritate as saying.
	www.sacc.org.za /about/celebrate3.html (3739 words)

	TIME.com: An Avalanche for Vorster -- Dec. 12, 1977 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The result was a personal victory for John Vorster.
		Worrall advocates a substantial revision of the government's apartheid blueprint, including some kind of constitutional role for the country's 9 million urban fls and an enlargement of the nine tribal homelands slated for nominal independence.
		But if there are to be any reforms in the near future, they will be "filtered through," one or two at a time, as a Vorster associate puts it.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,915823,00.html (621 words)

	Balthazar Johannes Vorster
		In 1958, Vorster was made deputy minister in Hendrik
		Later, as minister of justice (1961–66), Vorster suppressed opponents of
		Vorster attempted a somewhat more conciliatory foreign policy, pressing Rhodesia's Ian
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0851168.html (184 words)

	FFWD Weekly - April 15, 2004
		When the South African prime minister John Vorster made a state visit to Israel in April 1976, it began with a tour of Yad Vashem, Israel's great Holocaust memorial, where the late Yitzhak Rabin invited the onetime Nazi collaborator, unabashed racist and white supremacist to pay homage to Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
		As an old Nazi collaborator, Vorster should, of course, have been put on trial the minute he set foot on Israeli soil; instead, he was graciously welcomed by his Jewish hosts.
		Author Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi recalls in his book The Israeli Connection, "For most Israelis, the Vorster visit was just another state visit by a foreign leader.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2004/0415/let.htm (288 words)

	Disinformation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Three decades later he was being feted in Jerusalem.
		But most African states broke ties after the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the government in Jerusalem began to take a more benign view of the isolated regime in Pretoria.
		The relationship changed so profoundly that, in 1976, Israel invited the South African prime minister, John Vorster - a former Nazi sympathiser and a commander of the fascist Ossewabrandwag that sided with Hitler - to make a state visit.' (Guardian article).
	www.disinfo.com /site/printarticle15239.html (149 words)

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