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64,085. April 9th 1960 Milner Park Johannesburg mid-afternoon: Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, prime minister of South Africa, takes his place in the VIP stand ... Suddenly, gun shots ring out ... Someone wants the architect of apartheid dead. (Assassinations & South Africa) Infamous Assassinations: Dr Hendrik Verwoerd
64,086. The man who has just shot Verwoerd is far from being a victim of apartheid; he is a wealthy farmer and businessman 52-year-old David Pratt; and he’s white. (Assassinations & South Africa) ibid.
64,087. His [Verwoerd] newspapers steadfastly ignores the royal visit. (Assassinations & South Africa) ibid.
64,088. Since the British first restricted their movements in the nineteenth century the non-white people of South Africa have long been regarded as second-class citizens. But now things are about to get a great deal worse. (Assassinations & South Africa) ibid.
64,089. One of the more draconian measures he introduces is the wholesale destruction of non-white homesteads. Entire communities are uprooted and shifted to bleak new housing settlements. (Assassinations & South Africa) ibid.
64,090. March 21st 1960 Sharpeville Township, the Transvaal: in a campaign orchestrated by the PAC around ten-thousand non-white people descend on the local police station offering themselves up for arrest for the crime of not carrying a passport ... The police open fire killing sixty-eight men, women and children and wounding around a hundred and eighty. Many of them are shot in the back as they panic and try to run away. What becomes known as the Sharpeville massacre. (Assassinations & South Africa) ibid.
64,091. World opinion is outraged. (Assassinations & South Africa) ibid.
64,092. April 1st 1960 New York: the United Nations Security Council censors South Africa over apartheid. The country has become an international pariah. (Assassinations & South Africa) ibid.
64,093. May 31st 1961 Cape Town ... Vervoerd declares that South Africa is now a republic. (Assassinations & South Africa) ibid.
64,094. September 11th 1966 Pretoria: Vervoerd is given a state funeral. (Assassinations & South Africa) ibid.