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    Balthazar Johannes "B. J." Vorster (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈbaltɑːzar juəˈhanəs ˈfɔrstər]; also known as John Vorster; 13 December 1915 – 10 September...
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  • called John Vorster Square, after Prime Minister B.J. Vorster. John Vorster Square was officially opened on the 23 August 1968 by John Vorster, then the...
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    Minister and State President John Vorster. Martini Steyn Malan was born in Worcester and married future president John Vorster in 1941. They had three children:...
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    age of 29 from injuries sustained when he fell from the top floor of John Vorster Square police station in Johannesburg. Police claimed, and an official...
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  • the Orange Free State J. G. Strijdom: Prime Minister of South Africa John Vorster: Prime Minister of South Africa Schalk Willem Burger: Second Boer War...
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    despite the country having left the Commonwealth. In 1968, Prime Minister John Vorster proposed that a new national flag for South Africa be adopted in 1971...
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  • van den Bergh, who, while special Security Adviser to Prime Minister John Vorster, was instrumental in its establishment. The Truth and Reconciliation...
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    Salazar of Portugal, Gustáv Husák of Czechoslovakia, and most notably John Vorster and P. W. Botha of South Africa, denouncing apartheid as a "particularly...
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    The Lukasrand Tower (formerly known as the John Vorster Tower) is located on Muckleneuk Hill in the Lukasrand suburb of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa...
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    them. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state." His successor John Vorster also maintained the same view. In October 1962 at the UN General Assembly...
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    allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself while being held at the John Vorster Square police station. About 15,000 mourners attended Aggett's funeral...
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    two men. He was a minister in the governments of Hendrik Verwoerd and John Vorster. Until 1969, he successively dealt with mines, home affairs, immigration...
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  • interpreted as a reference to a leading politician, B.J. Vorster, who styled himself "John" Vorster and became prime minister of the apartheid regime in 1966...
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    appointed Minister of Defence by Verwoerd and served under the government of John Vorster, upon Verwoerd's murder later that year. Under his 14 years in charge...
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    white South Africans supported Rhodesia, South African Prime Minister John Vorster's policy of détente with the black African states ended up with Rhodesia...
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    was named as the Minister of Information in 1968 by the Prime Minister John Vorster. He was later appointed as the Minister of Bantu Administration (later...
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  • Slaap, my Kindjie. She attended the Afrikaans-medium Tini Vorster Primary and Hoërskool John Vorster where she became Head Girl in both and followed her theatrical...
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    them. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state." His successor John Vorster held the same view. Since then, a number of sources have used the apartheid...
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  • member of the National Party and cabinet minister in the governments of John Vorster and P. W. Botha. He was born in 1927 in Uniondale in the Cape Province...
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    South African head of state was held which pitted former Prime Minister John Vorster, backed by the then-ruling National Party, against former United Party...
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  • 1976 in South Africa. State President: Nico Diederichs. Prime Minister: John Vorster. Chief Justice: Frans Lourens Herman Rumpff. January 5 – The SABC begins...
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    California Press, 1983, page 161 South Africa: A War Won, Time, 9 June 1961 John Vorster, former South African Prime Minister, Dies At 67, The New York Times...
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    pilot plant for the enrichment of uranium was under way. Prime Minister John Vorster said of the development that "our sole objective in the development and...
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  • However, the Council did not reverse its original decision. Prime Minister John Vorster attitude toward the sit-in was on display during his speech for the Nationalist...
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  • Party cabinet minister, he held various portfolios in the cabinets of B.J. Vorster and P.W. Botha, and was later appointed ambassador to the United States...
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    escape attempt and nearly succeeded. After a spell in the notorious John Vorster Square in Johannesburg, they were returned to Cape Town and after four...
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    detained again, following the unrest in Soweto, and held for six months at John Vorster Square under the Terrorism Act. After his release, he became a law clerk...
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    National party.[citation needed] Following the assassination of Verwoerd, John Vorster took over as party leader and Prime Minister. From the 1960s onwards...
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    the first half of the decade. With the blessing of Minister of Justice John Vorster, van den Bergh set up a special unit, known as the "Sabotage Squad,"...
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    including the M5 (Beyers Naudé Drive) to Johannesburg and Muldersdrift, M6 (John Vorster Road; Ysterhout Drive; Hans Schoeman Street; Hill Street) to Roodepoort...
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