WI Verwoerd lives?

How would SA change, because he'd just won a third term, and was completing the "Master Apartheid" plan when he was killed.
 
I heard his "grand apartheid" plan would mean the homelands would be larger and more viable, rather than the "keep blacks poor so we can exploit them" apartheid of OTL.

Of course, I'm not an expert at apartheid at this point in its development. We might want to ask Marius.
 
There's actually a conspiracy theory that Verwoerd was planning on splitting SA into two. The whites would get the coast (and Johannesburg and some of the other big inland cities probably) and the blacks would get the rest of the country.

He was assasinated because hardliners in the NP didn't want the country split like that.

This is only a conspiracy theory mind you, and I've only read about this once.

Otherwise Verwoerd surviving is an interesting question. Yeah, I think there probably would be more money put into the homelands, in an attempt to make them viable. Life for blacks in "white" South Africa would perhaps be even worse. We also wouldn't see the mild detente towards black Africa and black liberation groups that started under Vorster in the '70s and was continued by Botha.

A surviving Verwoerd would be bad news for SA though, I think.
 
Good question - does anyone know who if there were particular politician champions of the close relationship with Rhodesia? I would suspect though that the relationship was based on pragmatism - that SA, Rhodesia and Portugal were all in the same boat and so supporting each other militarily (etc) would be a direct benefit either way. It would be hard to see how an isolated Grand Apartheid state in the 1960s would come to a different conclusion - unless say Rhodesia developed in a different way.
 
Perhaps Verwoerd would keep on supporting the Rhodesians. Of all South Africa's apartheid leaders he was the least pragmatic. Vorster saw that it was a lost cause supporting Smith and Rhodesia, and they were fighting a losing war, and that's why support was withdrawn from the Rhodesians. Verwoerd would perhaps have ignored that, and decided to support Rhodesia as they were another white minority government in a hostile neighbourhood.
 
All free to live in there own seperate sections

I am glad to see a forum on one of my favorite topics. As Marius knows,
Verwoerd is a unique charecter, because he seemed to really want seperate development to work, and he forced disablity access on south Africa, forty five years ahead of the rest of the world. As far as rhodesia goes, i think the main presenters are correct, Ironically,it was the oppostion United Party who were backing them even more, since they saw Ian smith as occuping a middle ground between intergration and full fledged sepertism.
What they called White Leadership with justice.
 
Top