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History [ edit ] Formed in 1980 by Wally Grant, H. F. Verwoerd junior (the son of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd ), Carel Boshoff and C. J. Joost, the group bemoaned the over-reliance of South Africa on a black workforce and sought to set up Oranjegroeipunte (Orange growth points) where the group would buy up land to settle unemployed white people on.
J. G. Strijdom, Prime Minister of South Africa (1954–1958), an uncompromising supporter of baaskap. Baasskap ([ˈbɑːskap]) (also spelled baaskap), literally "boss-ship" or "boss-hood", was a political philosophy prevalent during South African apartheid that advocated the social, political and economic domination of South Africa by its minority white population generally and by Afrikaners ...
A group of individuals classified as white under the Population Registration Act, 1950 by successive ruling administrations of South Africa during the apartheid period (1948-1994), who held views that made them publicly oppose apartheid informally as citizen activists or as members of anti-apartheid organisations like the ANC.
South Africa's white population increased to over 3,408,000 by 1965, reached 4,050,000 in 1973, and peaked at 5,244,000 in 1994-95. [18] Density of White South Africans by district in 1922. The number of white South Africans resident in their home country began gradually declining between 1990 and the mid-2000s as a result of increased ...
Have You Heard from Johannesburg is a 2010 series of seven documentary films, covering the 45-year struggle of the global anti-apartheid movement against South Africa's apartheid system and its international supporters who considered them an ally in the Cold War. The combined films have an epic scope, spanning most of the globe over half a century.
Verwoerd's legacy in South Africa today is a controversial one as for black South Africans, Verwoerd was and still is regarded as the epitome of evil, the white supremacist who become a symbol of apartheid itself. Apparently, most white South Africans now speak of Verwoerd as an embarrassment and only a minority still praise him. [23]
The White Liberation Movement (Afrikaans: Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging, abbreviated BBB) was a South African neo-Nazi organisation which became infamous after being banned under the Apartheid regime, the first right-wing organisation to be so banned. It regarded itself as the most far-right organisation in South Africa. [2]
On 7 July 1973, Eugène Terre'Blanche, a former police officer, called a meeting of several men in Heidelberg, Gauteng, in the then-Transvaal Province of South Africa. He was disillusioned by what he thought were Prime Minister B. J. Vorster's "liberal views" of racial issues in the White minority country, after a period in which Black majorities had ascended to power in many former colonies.