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Still continuing to name a school "Hendrik Verwoerd", for instance, could surely not be seen as not being offensive, seven years into
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The only rival to the toilet bowl for campaign iconography has been a statue of Hendrik Verwoerd, reviled architect of racial apartheid, in another DA-run municipality that the party holds up as a showcase of good governance.
Why is South Africa still providing 'apartheid toilets'? | David Smith 2011
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He made a point of exonerating some of his bitterest enemies from the segregation years by visiting the widow of Hendrik Verwoerd, the Afrikaner prime minister who devised apartheid, and by paying a courtesy call to P.W. Botha, the finger-wagging former president who lacked the courage to release Mandela unconditionally before a stroke forced the Afrikaner president out of office.
Madiba Magic 2008
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Perhaps two of his finest moments as a reconciler came when he had tea with the widow of apartheid architect Hendrik Verwoerd and when he donned the Springboks rugby jersey to congratulate the mainly white team's victory in the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
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Strydom died four years later while still holding office and was succeeded by Hendrik Verwoerd, who "too left the office in a coffin" after being stabbed to death by a parliamentary messenger.
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Two years before the historic women\'s march, the first women\'s charter was adopted at the founding conference of the Federation of South African Women in the same year that Bantu education minister Hendrik Verwoerd enforced a separate and unequal education system for African children.
Speech by Mastorey Morutoa on the detabe on International Women\'s Day 2007
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On his return to South Africa in the early sixties he worked as a researcher for Hendrik Verwoerd, then became director of "cultural information" for the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurverenigings.
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Anna was the second eldest daughter of former apartheid-era prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd, and married Boshoff in 1954.
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Nelson Mandela's election as South African president, numerous roads across the country are still named after Hendrik Verwoerd, prime minister from 1958 to 1966 and regarded as the chief architect of apartheid.
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The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) said it wanted proposals for names to replace those of Hendrik Verwoerd and Hans
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