Hendrik Verwoerd
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Elon Musk and the irony of calling black economic empowerment racist
Beneficiaries crying oppression are eating at the table apartheid set for them — and complaining when someone else is finally offered a chair
In integrity there is justice
Duma Nokwe is the ideal example of the calibre of leader the world is crying out for today
The mechanism of contagion in racism
How race came to function as fuel to an exploitative economic system. Take the case of South Africa…
The biographies of Robert McBride and Dimitri Tsafendas share a curious resonance
Although the two men were from different generations, their lives both lay bare the atrocities of the apartheid state
A Player in apartheid gets award
South Africa’s legendary golfer, who is said to have aided the past regime, is honoured by Trump
A usefully awkward encounter with Verwoerd
An interview with Wilhelm Verwoerd raises a conundrum about how to grapple with our past
Don’t censor the red berets, describe them
People need the facts to make informed choices, which is what journalists should be providing
Verwoerd’s assassin a complex ‘hero’
Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who killed the architect of apartheid, was an enigmatic ‘revolutionary’ with a ‘deep social conscience’
The law can change racist minds
Unexpressed racism may be even more dangerous if it’s left lurking below the surface
Unravelling Darwin’s ‘hunch’
This beautifully written, well researched story of the origins of man forces us to today confront the social construct of ‘race’
Jury’s still out on whether Tsafendas was a political hero or a deranged assassin
It’s 50 years since Demitrio Tsafendas murdered Hendrik Verwoerd. In a new book, his advocate’s son describes how his legacy remains in limbo.
Our best Verwoerd forward
Melanie married into the family, but found that the name has been as much a source of strength as a burden.
FF Plus: DA renamed Verwoerd Primary to gain black voters
The Democratic Alliance has condemned the Freedom Front Plus over its criticism regarding the name change of Dr Verwoed Primary School in Meyerton.
Apartheid speech came as big surprise
The Rubicon speech was received with great dismay by South Africa’s diplomats, writes Pieter Wolvaardt.
Where apartheid statues go to die
When a bust of Hendrik Verwoerd disappeared into the night in Midvaal, the question arose: What actually happens to the statues from our sordid past?