September 8 – Hendrik Verwoerd, prime minister of South Africa was born

September 8, 1901: Hendrik Verwoerd, prime minister of South Africa was born.
Former Prime Minister of South Africa, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands and he died September 6, 1966 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Verwoerd was a South African professor, editor, and statesman who, as prime minister(1958–66), rigorously developed and applied the policy of apartheid, or separation of the races.
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