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1. Verwoerd, Hendrik Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerdnoun

   South African statesman who instituted the policy of apartheid (1901-1966)

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1. Hendrik Verwoerd

   Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd ([fərˈvuːrt]; 8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966) was a South African politician, a scholar of applied psychology and sociology, and chief editor of Die Transvaler newspaper. He is commonly regarded as the architect of Apartheid. Verwoerd played a significant role in socially engineering apartheid, the country's system of institutionalized racial segregation and white supremacy, and implementing its policies as Minister of Native Affairs (1950–1958) and then as prime minister (1958–1966). Furthermore, Verwoerd played a vital role in helping the far-right National Party come to power in 1948, serving as their political strategist and propagandist, becoming party leader upon his premiership. He was the Union of South Africa's last prime minister, from 1958 to 1961, when he proclaimed the founding of the Republic of South Africa, remaining its prime minister until his assassination in 1966. Verwoerd was an authoritarian, socially conservative leader and an Afrikaner nationalist. He was a member of the Afrikaner Broederbond (Afrikaans: Brotherhood), a secret white and Calvinist organization dedicated to advancing the Afrikaner "volk" interests, and protested against South Africa's declaration of war on Germany during World War II. Following the Nationalist electoral victory in 1948, Verwoerd assumed high positions in the government and wielded a strong influence on South African society. Verwoerd became prime minister in 1958. His desire to ensure white, and especially Afrikaner dominance in South Africa, to the exclusion of the nonwhite majority, was a major aspect of his support for a republic though removing the British monarchy. To that same end, Verwoerd greatly expanded apartheid. He branded the system of apartheid as a policy of "good-neighborliness", stating that as different races and cultures have different beliefs and values, they could only reach their full potential if they lived and developed apart from each other.. He stated that the white minority had to be protected from the nonwhite majority by pursuing a "policy of separate development" and keeping power in the hands of whites. Apartheid saw the complete disfranchisement of the nonwhite population.During his premiership, Verwoerd heavily repressed opposition to apartheid. He empowered, modernized, and enlarged the country's security forces. He banned black organizations, including the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress, and it was under his tenure that uMkhonto we Sizwe founder and future South African president Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. By the mid-1960s Verwoerd's government had largely suppressed civil resistance to apartheid through the use of extraordinary legislative power, draconian laws, psychological intimidation, and the efforts of the security forces. Although Apartheid began in 1948 with D. F. Malan's premiership, Verwoerd's role in expanding and legally entrenching the system, including his theoretical justifications and opposition to the limited form of integration known as baasskap, have led him to be described as the "Architect of Apartheid". His actions prompted the passing of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1761, condemning apartheid, and ultimately leading to South Africa's international isolation and economic sanctions. On 6 September 1966, Verwoerd was stabbed several times by parliamentary aide Dimitri Tsafendas. He died shortly after, and Tsafendas was jailed until his death in 1999.

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1. hendrik verwoerd

   Hendrik Verwoerd was a Dutch-born South African politician, sociologist, and journalist who served as the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966. Verwoerd is often referred to as the 'architect of apartheid' due to his role in shaping the apartheid policies during his time as Minister of Native Affairs and later as Prime Minister. His policies included the creation of bantustans (homelands for black South Africans) and rigorous racial segregation, which led to widespread political unrest and international outcry.

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1. Hendrik Verwoerd

   Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, commonly identified as H. F. Verwoerd, was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966. He is remembered as the man behind the conception and implementation of apartheid, a system of racial segregation dividing ethnic groups in the country. He was Prime Minister during the establishment of the Republic of South Africa in 1961, thereby fulfilling the Afrikaner dream of an independent republic for South Africans. During his tenure as Prime Minister, anti-Apartheid movements such as the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress were banned, and the Rivonia Trial, which prosecuted ANC leaders, was held. Many major roads, places and facilities in cities and towns of South Africa were named after Verwoerd; in post-apartheid South Africa, most of these references to the creator of apartheid have been renamed. Famous ones include H. F. Verwoerd Airport in Port Elizabeth, renamed Port Elizabeth Airport, the Verwoerd Dam in the Free State, now the Gariep Dam, H. F. Verwoerd Academic Hospital in Pretoria, now Steve Biko Hospital, and the town of Verwoerdburg, now Centurion.

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