Verwoerd: My Journey through Family Betrayals

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Wilhelm Verwoerd. Verwoerd: My Journey through Family Betrayals

First letter

Chapter 1

PART 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

PART 2

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

PART 3

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Glossary

End notes

Abridged sources

Table of Contents

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WILHELM VERWOERD

My Journey

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It’s the second time I’ve heard that “tsafendas” became a verb for fellow South Africans.

Dudley Adolph grew up in a mixed township on the East Rand of Johannesburg, far from Pumla’s Langa. He’d told me: “Verwoerd … in our township was like a … like a swear name. We would refer to him as a ‘dog’ … ‘because of Verwoerd, look at these conditions, because of Verwoerd …’ But you didn’t dare say anything against him because you were fearful of the security police. Everybody knew who had killed him. I remember when he was stabbed. It was like a big party. From then on, ‘tsafenda’ [or ‘tsafendas’] became slang for stabbing someone.”

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