2 September 1958

H.F. Verwoerd announces an intensification of apartheid

Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd announces an intensification of the Apartheid policy in parliament. Verwoerd is known as an architect of Apartheid, because it was during his rule that harsh racial segregation laws like the Bantu Education Acts were passed. He is also responsible for taking South Africa out of the Commonwealth of Nations and for South Africa becoming a republic in 1961.

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