Abused, mocked and scorned by most of the world, South Africa's embattled Afrikaners look for leadership to jour stubborn men who are the architects of apartheid and who believe so strongly in their own views that they are oblivious to any suggestion of change.
Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, 59, South Africa's husky, silver-haired Prime Minister, was born in The Netherlands, but at two, was taken to South Africa, where his father became a Dutch Reformed missionary. Verwoerd (pronounced Fair-voort) was educated at Cape Province's Stellenbosch University, intellectual fount of Afrikanerdom, became a professor...