They retired to Orania to escape majority rule. Then South Africa’s first black president came to have tea with Hendrik Verwoerd’s widow. David Beresford was there
The presidential inauguration … The world’s leaders came to honour Nelson Mandela, the former convict who is now commander in chief.
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/ 27 October 1989
The news came through on the wires shortly before 10am last Friday – three men had been hanged at Pretoria Central Prison at dawn.