{"id":2830,"date":"2012-10-12T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T09:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2012-10-12T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T09:52:09","slug":"verwoerds-hated-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"Verwoerd’s hated legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>NEWS FLASH FROM 50 YEARS AGO
\n\u2022 Safmarine buys two refrigerated cargo ships of 10 000 tonnes each to transport export fruit to Europe for R2 million.
\n\u2022 South Africa takes the lead with 100 000 bales of cotton spun every year on 230 000 spindles and 3 500 looms, creating 10 000 jobs.
\n\u2022 South Africa is the largest exporter of fish in the southern hemisphere and sixth in the world with exports valued at R40 million.
\n\u2022 Great Britain report that on average 250 applications for emigration to South Africa are received daily, especially from skilled artisans.
\n\u2022 Maree, Minister for Education, establishes the Board for bantu Education, aimed at improving black education to the same level as education for whites.
\n\u2022 2000 white refugees from Kenya\u2019s uhuru uprising are relocated in Natal where they are helped to produce tea, coffee and sisal.
\n\u2022 Local governments for the coloured community in the Free State established by MEC Haveman.
\n\u2022 SA Railways and Harbours orders 100 new electric locomotives at a cost of R13 million and with the provision that 68% material from South Africa be used in the manufacturing process.
\n\u2022 A hand-spinning and weaving factory for fabrics erected in Umtata, Transkei to create jobs for blacks by the Bantu Investment Corporation.
\n\u2022 The cape Hospitals Department spend R23 million on new hospitals, including the new University of Stellenbosch Teaching Hospital.
\n\u2022 A two-storey hotel for blacks erected in Daveyton, Springs for use by black sportsmen and VIP\u2019s handed over to black entrepreneurs by Benoni Town Council.
\n\u2022 Dr FW Quass says that of the 2060 welfare organisations in the country, 2000 are aimed at the black population.
\n\u2022 The Department of Statistics releases figures of an 18% increase in employment. Monthly income for the year rose to R111,4 million compared to the previous year\u2019s R102 million.
\n\u2022 Some coloured townships, including Haarlem in the Langkloof, exempted from the Group Areas Act and put under own administration.
\n\u2022 Between 1959 and 1962 a total of 91 631 houses for blacks were built at a cost of R38 million in urban areas, while 474 sub-economic units were built for whites at a cost of R1 million.
\n\u2022 South Africa has 300 000 miners employed at gold mines and 250 000 in coal mines. The fatality figures stands at 1,29 per thousand workers.
\n\u2022 Foreign investment grew from R142 million in 1961 to R503,6 million according to Trust Bank.
\n\u2022 The government announces plans to make it possible for 35 000 Xhosas in Western Transvaal to bring out special votes during the Transkei elections.
\n\u2022 Chief Pilane of the Tswana says he foresees the establishment of an independent Tswana state where his people and whites \u201ccan live in peace as we have always done\u201d.
\n\u2022 PW Botha, Minister of Housing, announces plans to build 2000 houses in Klerksdorp and 2000 in Port Elizabeth to make provision for new immigrant employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEWS FLASH FROM 50 YEARS AGO \u2022 Safmarine buys two refrigerated cargo ships of 10 000 tonnes each to transport export fruit to Europe for R2 million. \u2022 South Africa takes the lead with 100 000 bales of cotton spun every year on 230 000 spindles and 3 500 looms, creating 10 000 jobs. \u2022 … Continue reading “Verwoerd’s hated legacy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[854,85,164,12250,1777],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-africa","tag-afrikaners","tag-apartheid","tag-south-africa","tag-verwoerd"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/verwoerd.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}