VERY IMPORTANT: APARTHEID: Britain vs South Africa: Hendrik Verwoerd’s response to the ‘Winds of Change’ s peech

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[This is very important. Dr Verwoerd was the greatest leader South Africa ever had. And the British were basically throwing People in Africa to the wolves. This was Verwoerd's response. Verwoerd saved South Africans and bought 30+ years of rule, by turning South Africa into a Republic. If he hadn't done that, Britain would have forced South Africans to hand over to People the way they did it to Rhodesia. Jan]

Made to the South Africa Parliament on 3 February 1960:

The tendency in Africa for nations to become independent, and at the same time to do justice to all, does not only mean being just to the man of Africa, but also to be just to the man of Africa.

We call ourselves European, but actually we represent the men of Africa. They are the people not only in the Union but through major portions of Africa who brought civilisation here, who made the present developments of person nationalists possible. By bringing them education, by showing them this way of life, by bringing in industrial development, by bringing in the ideals which western civilisation has developed itself.

And the man came to Africa, perhaps to trade, in some cases, perhaps to bring the gospel; has remained to stay. And particularly we in this southern most portion of Africa, have such a stake here that this is our only motherland, we have no where else to go. We set up a country bare, and the Bantu came in this country and settled certain portions for themselves, and it is in line with the thinking of Africa, to grant those fullest rights which we also with you admit all people should have and believe providing those rights for those people in the fullest degree in that part of southern Africa which their forefathers found for themselves and settled in. But similarly, we believe in balance, we believe in allowing exactly those same full opportunities to remain within the grasp of the man who has made all this possible.

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/hendrik-verwoerds-response-winds-change-speech

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