Wipe the smile off Hendrik Verwoerd’s face by fixing the South African education system. That is what Amnesty International SA wants South Africans and the government to do. “The legacy of racial ...

The man who was famously known for assassinating former prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd was declared a madman by the state. Harris Dousemetzis, author of a recently released book on the subject, ...

If Verwoerd were alive today, the terrible truth is that he would be happy to see how his legacy is still driving inequality and causing suffering for the majority of South Africa's children, writes ...

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, prime minister of the Republic of South Africa, rose from his desk in Parliament September 6 at 2 p.m., as corridor bells announced the opening of another session. At that ...

Ever since the Boer-dominated Nationalist government took over in 1948, its unwavering goal has been a republic for South Africa, shorn of the ties to Britain’s monarch that recalled the ugly days of ...

Jacaranda FM radio personality Tumi Morake quoted apartheid-era politician Hendrik Verwoerd's grandson when she compared apartheid to bullying, the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of SA heard ...

On Sept. 6, 1914, World War I's first Battle of the Marne took place outside Paris, France, resulting in the deaths of some 150,000 people. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (Amsterdam, 8 September 1901 – Cape ...

I got up to shake my guest’s hand at the end of the interview. I then asked my producer to take a photo of us. My producer obliged. He took several photos and it felt like a long time. Long enough, ...

When an official approached the Prime Minister of South Africa before a 1966 parliamentary session, no one expected an assassin to have made his way to the heart of the apartheid establishment. Yet ...

Picking actor Renos Nicos Spanoudes to recreate the assassin Dimitri Tsafendas was an inspired choice. With his thick-set, hangdog features he could easily pass for Tsafendas, whose melange of Greek, ...

At Johannesburg’s Witwatersrand University, a young South African lecturer in chemistry publicly turned his back on his country. Said David Rosseinsky, 28: “Call it running away if you like, but ...