Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, prime minister of the Republic of South Africa, rose from his desk in Parliament September 6 at 2 p.m., as corridor bells announced the opening of another session. At that ...

Nine months ago Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd ordered a nation wide referendum (whites only) to convert South Africa into a republic. He, like almost everyone else, expected a majority of ...

Never before had the assembly chamber of the Union of South Africa’s Parliament echoed with more noble sentiments, nor had Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd and his Nationalists sounded more ...

Neither Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd nor any member of his Cabinet has ever set foot in the Negro-ruled new states of Africa, but this does not prevent South Africa’s confident Prime Minister from ...

Johannesburg - A bust of the architect of South Africa's erstwhile apartheid regime will go on public view after being removed from parliament following the country's first democratic elections in ...

In roaring chorus, the 173 Afrikaner Nationalists gathered in the shuttered caucus room broke into the old Dutch hymn, Let God’s Blessings on Him Fall. Then the paneled teakwood doors swung open, and ...