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Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd ( Afrikaans pronunciation: [fərˈvuːrt]; 8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966), also known as H. F. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, scholar, and newspaper editor who was Prime Minister of South Africa and is commonly regarded as the architect of apartheid [2] and nicknamed the "father of apartheid". [3] .
Jun 5, 2024 · Hendrik Verwoerd (born September 8, 1901, Amsterdam, Netherlands—died September 6, 1966, Cape Town, South Africa) was a South African professor, editor, and statesman who, as prime minister (1958–66), rigorously developed and applied the policy of apartheid, or separation of the races.
Aug 16, 2019 · When Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed to death Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, in South Africa’s parliament in September 1966, he shocked the country and sent my family ...
Sep 14, 2016 · Verwoerd, 64, was the proud Afrikaner who set in stone the segregation of South Africa. He listened as bells called his fellow legislators to the chamber. It was a day South...
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd. (September 8, 1901 - September 6, 1966) 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’.
May 29, 2018 · Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (1901-1966) was the sixth prime minister of South Africa. He transformed apartheid into an effective instrument for the entrenchment of white domination. Hendrik Verwoerd was born near Amsterdam, Holland, on Sept. 8, 1901.
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 8 September 1901. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd. His father was a shopkeeper and a deeply religious man who decided to move to South Africa in 1903 because of his sympathy towards the Afrikaner nation after the South African War.
Nov 25, 2009 · Verwoerd's assassination in 1966, his tenth year as Prime Minister, reverberated with intense symbolic significance.
Prime Minister of South Africa 1958–66. Early career. Born in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), his family migrated to South Africa in 1903. He studied at Stellenbosch, then in Germany (1925–8), and was appointed professor upon his return to Stellenbosch.
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, also known as H. F. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, scholar, and newspaper editor who was Prime Minister of South Africa and is commonly regarded as the architect of apartheid and nicknamed the "father of apartheid".
