‘Hendrick Verwoerd: South Africa’s Greatest Prime Minister’ Murdered in 1966 By The Money Powers That Feared Him

A courageous and thorough researcher, Stephen Mitford Goodson, the well known expelled insider of the Reserve Bank of South Africa, has produced a most revealing biography.  Goodson has a rare ability in his books of pairing brevity with fact filled information which pours out of just 144 pages of his well-sourced book.

Editor’s Note: Written permission from Stephen Mitford Goodson to publish this extract from his book, prior to his untimely passing. Images and captions have been added to the original text.

“HENDRIK FRENSCH VERWOERD: SOUTH AFRICA’S GREATEST PRIME MINISTER” 2^nd ed. 2017, by Stephen Mitford Goodson, pp.122-124

Stephen Goodson’s survey will astonish most English-speaking South Africans. The English Press and the four main English language universities painted Dr Verwoerd as a petty racist. Even today, they remember him as the “architect of apartheid”, by which they mean that racism was his first principle of government – the protection of White people and disrespect for the aspirations of Black people.

Dr Verwoerd’s first principle of government, the author shows us, was that the highest levels of attainment in our society must be protected, so that those attainments can spread to others. Dr Verwoerd [born in Holland] warned that the Liberal principle of pretending that different levels of attainment were unimportant would destroy the quality of life in South Africa.