In 1960, the White Afrikaner undemocratic racist Nationalist Government of South Africa was at its cruelest against all non-White South Africans. That Government took over from the racist White British Empire authorities in 1948.

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, 59 years old, was the Afrikaner Prime Minister of South Africa in 1960. He had been born in Holland, of Dutch and French heritage.

On his way to becoming Prime Minister of South Africa, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd earned a Doctorate degree in Philosophy from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa; worked as a University Professor; was an editor of a national newspaper; was appointed Minister of Native Affairs in the Government.

During the Second World War he and some of his colleagues were imprisoned in South Africa by the British-sponsored White Afrikaner apartheid racist Government because in the years immediately preceding the war they had visited Nazi Germany on Adolf Hitler’s invitation.

The first assassination attempt was made against Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd in 1961. He was shot in the face by a White man in South Africa. The second attempt was in 1966 when he was stabbed to death by a White menial intra-Parliamentary messenger worker man in Parliament, during a full session of all members of the Government. As he sat in his chair, he was stabbed repeatedly in the neck in full view of nearby Parliamentary elected members. He died there in his chair. To date, he is the only South African Prime Minister to be assassinated while in office.

His particular hatred of South Africans of Asian Indian ethnicity originated in his family’s failed business dealings in Holland, long before he was born. His family ancestors had been among the first in the seventeenth century in Europe to establish trade between Holland and India.

That commercial business connection lasted successfully for over two centuries. In that time entire branches of the Verwoerd family were born in India and lived their lives in India, never even visiting Holland. That success came to an end when India gained its independence from the British Empire violently in the twentieth century.

In the heat of the moment, as it were, Indian patriotism against the British in India easily became anti-European. Because India had been home for generations for many in the Verwoerd family, a fair number of them chose to remain in India after India gained its independence from the British Empire. In fact, there is no record of any Verwoerds emigrating from India to Holland because of India’s independence.

Soon after India’s independence from the British Empire, the situation in Holland for the Verwoerds turned disastrous. The family business went bankrupt. The family chose to emigrate to South Africa. Hendrik’s hatred of India encompassed all South Africans of Indian ethnicity, even those, an overwhelming majority, who had never been to India, and who had no intention to do so at any time.

When Verwoerd’s Afrikaner racist Government offered South Africans of Indian ethnicity payment if they emigrated to India, there were no takers.

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd declared he was determined to re-name the Indian Ocean because it washed South Africa’s entire East coast.

Hendrik’s hatred of Indians was a result of his family’s failed business in India; his hatred of Negroid black South Africans was from the depths of his evil Caucasian White all-Christian soul. More than once, to cheers from his apartheid racist Afrikaner South African audience, he publicly declared that Negroid Blacks were fit for being only “hewers of wood and drawers of water.”

Science and other advanced subjects were not included in the curriculum of Government racially segregated schools for non-Whites in South Africa.

In the time of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd the internationally famous children’s book of fictive tales of a horse, “Black Beauty”, written by a White English author, was banned in South Africa because the White Afrikaner censors thought it was a book of stories about beautiful Negroid Black persons.

It was during Verwoerd’s time that the massacre at the town of Sharpeville, near Johannesburg, happened. White police machine-gunned to death 69 unarmed non-White protesters from the back.

It was during Verwoerd’s time that Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for opposing the White Government’s apartheid racist laws. Eventually, twenty-eight years after Verwoerd had been assassinated, Nelson Mandela would become the Fist non-White President of a truly democratic South Africa, ending centuries of racist British-Afrikaner oppression of non-White South Africans.

During those centuries non-White races in South Africa were not allowed to pause in their travel through the inland Whites-only Province of Orange Free State. It was the Province where the Verwoerd family lived. This account is of the only instance of illegal trespassing by non-White South Africans in the Orange Free State. It happened in 1960, when Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was Prime Minister of South Africa.

During an electric storm in the Orange Free State, a portion of the rail tracks had been dislocated. Luckily, the dislocation had been discovered in time. The ten-coach train was brought to a stop.

More luckily, the train was not for passengers; it was a goods-and-prisoner-transport. All twenty prisoners were South African non-Whites. Because the transport was travelling through the Orange Free State, all the prisoners were chained into a single line. There were only two armed police guards. Those guards traveled in their own coach attached to the prisoners’ coach.

When the train came to a halt, the guards did not bother to check up on the prisoners, because the electric storm continued in ferocity. When there was a lull in the storm, and the guards checked, they discovered that all the prisoners had escaped! The guards discovered that the storm had caused some coach doors to malfunction.

In those before cell phone times, the guards were on their own. In those White racist British-Afrikaner times, those guards were allowed to shoot dead all escaping non-White prisoners.

The two guards hurried to the engine to inform the two locomotive engineers, and to invite the engineers to arm themselves and join the two guards. The engineers had no weapons, but their duties were to remain with the locomotive.

The White engineers were not at all fearful of the twenty escaped non-White prisoners. They were confident that non-Whites, prisoners and others, were genetically fearful of Caucasian Whites, armed or not.

The engineers suggested the guards walk ahead along the railway tracks to get help from the next railroad station a few miles ahead. That would have been the safest option had the weather been less violent. The guards chose to track down the prisoners. After all, there was a distinct possibility that the twenty were still chained.

Both White guards, probably, were confident that twenty chained non-Whites were yet no match for two armed White guards.

The two guards were in a quandary. They knew they had neither enough ammunition nor guards to re-take the escaped prisoners. They were keenly aware that if those prisoners committed crimes there in the Orange Free State, the guards’ careers were over in disgrace. The Orange Free State was practically a Holy land to South African Afrikaners, and there it was being desecrated by illegal non-White scum!

The guards set out in rain and wind and thunder and lightning.

There has never been official word on how that situation turned out.

At present, the Orange Free State is home to Orania, a private estate run by the children of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd as an independent Whites-only country within South Africa!