Verwoerd

[fuhr-voort]

noun

1. Hendrik Frensch 1901–66, South African political leader, born in the Netherlands: prime minister 1958–66.

Verwoerd

/ fəˈvʊt, fɛəˈvʊət /

noun

1. Hendrik Frensch (ˈhɛndrɪk frɛns). 1901–66, South African statesman, born in the Netherlands: prime minister of South Africa (1958–66) and the principal architect of the apartheid system: assassinated

Example Sentences

For instance, the name of former Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, a key figure in implementing apartheid, has been removed from many places.

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The spectre of Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is difficult to escape.

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But it had also, historically, been a bastion of white supremacy, having produced infamous apartheid-era prime ministers such as Hendrik Verwoerd and D. F. Malan.

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It was only two years ago that a plaque commemorating Verwoerd was removed from a university building following a concerted activist campaign.

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TWENTY-ONE years into South Africa’s democracy, a bronze plaque honouring Hendrik Verwoerd, the mastermind of racial apartheid, still hung by the entrance of the Accounting and Statistics building at Stellenbosch University.

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