Hendrik Verwoerd
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Verwoerd was born in the Netherlands. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd: he had an elder brother named Leendert and a younger sister named Lucie. His father was a shopkeeper and a deeply religious man who decided to move his family to South Africa in 1903 because of his sympathy towards the Afrikaner nation after the Second Boer War. In 1913, the family moved to Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, where the elder Verwoerd became an assistant evangelist in the Dutch Reformed Church. Hendrik Verwoerd attended Milton High School where he was awarded the Beit Scholarship, but was forced to decline because of his family’s move back to South Africa, Brandfort in the Orange Free State. Due to the worldwide spanish flu epidemic, Hendrik Verwoerd sat for his matriculation exams in February 1919, proving himself to be an able student at the Lutheran School in Wynberg and Wynberg Boys' High School, achieving first position in the Orange Free State and fifth in South Africa.
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| H.F. Verwoerd photographed with D.F. Malan in 1954 H.F. Verwoerd photographed with D.F. Malan in 1954 lib.sun.ac.za/jspui/handle/10019.2/179/ - Web |
| Video of H. Verwoerd's failed assassination in 196... Video of H. Verwoerd's failed assassination in 1960 www.britishpathe.com/.../attempted-assassination-of-dr-verwoerd - Web |
| BBC TV program on his death BBC TV program on his death www.bbc.co.uk/archive/apartheid/7207.shtml - Web |
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