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    "B. J." Vorster (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈbaltɑːzar juəˈhanəs ˈfɔrstər]; 13 December 1915 – 10 September 1983), better known as John Vorster, was a South...
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  • called John Vorster Square, after Prime Minister B.J. Vorster. John Vorster Square was officially opened on the 23 August 1968 by John Vorster, then the...
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    State President John Vorster. Martini Steyn Malan was born in Worcester and married future Prime Minister and State President John Vorster in 1941. They...
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    in 1966, when he was appointed Minister of Defence by Prime Minister John Vorster. During his tenure, he transformed the South African Defense Forces,...
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    age of 29 from injuries sustained when he fell from the top floor of John Vorster Square police station in Johannesburg. Police claimed, and an official...
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    California Press, 1983, page 161 South Africa: A War Won, Time, 9 June 1961 John Vorster, former South African Prime Minister, Dies At 67, The New York Times...
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    detained again, following the unrest in Soweto, and held for six months at John Vorster Square under the Terrorism Act. After his release, he became a law clerk...
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    They were called one year earlier than scheduled by Prime Minister John Vorster on 4 February. The House of Assembly was increased in size from 166 to...
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  • and Motaung unknowingly fled in the direction of the police station in John Vorster Square. Mahlangu was shot in the ankle and the pair fled into a nearby...
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    was named as the Minister of Information in 1968 by the Prime Minister John Vorster. He was later appointed as the Minister of Bantu Administration (later...
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    two men. He was a minister in the governments of Hendrik Verwoerd and John Vorster. Until 1969, he successively dealt with mines, home affairs, immigration...
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  • Minister of Justice and the Police in the cabinet of Prime Minister John Vorster from 1974 to 1979. He was also President of the Senate from 1979 until...
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  • the Orange Free State J. G. Strijdom: Prime Minister of South Africa John Vorster: Prime Minister of South Africa Christiaan Frederik Beyers: Second Boer...
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    soldiers resembled Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd and Minister of Justice John Vorster. Minister of the Interior, Jan de Klerk, ordered the painting to be taken...
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    preceded it. In 1975, Prime Minister John Vorster predicted that de Klerk would one day become leader of South Africa. Vorster planned to promote de Klerk to...
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  • interpreted as a reference to a leading politician, B. J. Vorster, who styled himself "John" Vorster and became prime minister of the apartheid regime in 1966...
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    acting State President from 21 August 1978 to 10 October 1978, when B.J. Vorster was briefly elected to the position. Viljoen was seen as a relatively-moderate...
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    the first half of the decade. With the blessing of Minister of Justice John Vorster, van den Bergh set up a special unit, known as the "Sabotage Squad,"...
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    medically evacuated from the ship to Aberdeen, where his appendix was removed by John Marnoch. He was mentioned in dispatches for his actions as a turret officer...
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    despite the country having left the Commonwealth. In 1968, Prime Minister John Vorster proposed that a new national flag for South Africa be adopted in 1971...
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  • primary school years, before moving to centre in grade 10 at Hoërskool John Vorster, from where he earned SA Schools representative selection. Botha proved...
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    younger than Albert Victor, and the two princes were educated together. John Neale Dalton was appointed as their tutor in 1871. Neither Albert Victor...
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  • member of the National Party and cabinet minister in the governments of John Vorster and P. W. Botha. He was born in 1927 in Uniondale in the Cape Province...
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    rule indefinitely. By this time, even South Africa's John Vorster had come to this view. While Vorster was unwilling to make concessions to his own country's...
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  • Party cabinet minister, he held various portfolios in the cabinets of B.J. Vorster and P.W. Botha. He was regarded as one of the most reform‐minded ministers...
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  • Viljoen (acting from 21 August until 9 October). John Vorster (from 10 October). Prime Minister: John Vorster (until 2 October). P.W. Botha (from 9 October)...
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    allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself while being held at the John Vorster Square police station. About 15,000 mourners attended Aggett's funeral...
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    Salazar of Portugal, Gustáv Husák of Czechoslovakia, and most notably John Vorster and P. W. Botha of South Africa, denouncing apartheid as a "particularly...
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    The Lukasrand Tower (formerly known as the John Vorster Tower) is located on Muckleneuk Hill in the Lukasrand suburb of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa...
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    venue for the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial. However, UK Prime Minister John Major flatly rejected the idea, saying that the UK government did not have...
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