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Foreign Criticism of Apartheid Hits Raw Nerve in South Africa
White South Africans reel as international condemnations of apartheid grow after Premier Hendrik Verwoerd's assassination. Officials stress multiracial mourning at Verwoerd memorials, contrasting past white-only state funerals with today’s shifting attitudes. Non white attendees and mourners are noted in official dispatches amid broader global scrutiny.
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Johannesburg
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Hendrik Verwoerd
Africa
Sharpeville
Verwoerd
Black Africa
South Africa
Johannes Strijdom