Died 1983-09-10.
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B. J. Vorster
Balthazar Johannes Vorster was a South African politician who served as the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978 and the fourth State President of South Africa from 1978 to 1979. Known as B. J. Vorster during much of his career, he came to prefer the anglicized name John in the 1970s. He was interned in 1942 by the South African government for his involvement in the pro-Nazi Ossewabran…
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politics · South African politician (1915–1983) · politician · minister · also B. J. Vorster, John Vorster, Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Vorster
Born 13 December 1915 · Died 10 September 1983 · Q313903
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1982· 1 entry
John Vorster supported the Conservative Party of Andries Treurnicht at its founding congress
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1978· 1 entry
Career landmark: State President of South Africa (1978–1979).
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1976· 1 entry
As prime minister, Vorster encouraged the Department of Information to engage in clandestine activities in and outside South Africa
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1975· 1 entry
Left South Africa and Rhodesia as the sole outposts of white minority rule on the continent: while Vorster was unwilling to make any concessions to his country's majority population, he soon realised that white rule woul
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1966· 2 entries
Vorster was elected by the National Party to succeed him, and continued Verwoerd's implementation of apartheid legislation, including the 1968 abolition of the last four parliamentary seats that had been reserved for whi
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of South Africa (1966–1978).
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1961· 1 entry
By prime minister Verwoerd, an outspoken mentor and idol of Vorster
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1948· 2 entries
Vorster joined the National Party in 1951
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Vorster was elected to the House of Assembly representing the seat of Nigel in the Transvaal in 1953
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1944· 1 entry
Vorster became active in the National Party, which began implementing the policy of apartheid in 1948
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1942· 2 entries
Said: "We stand for Christian nationalism which is an ally of National Socialism
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By the South African government for his involvement in the pro-Nazi Ossewabrandwag, but Vorster denied this and said the official reason given to him was for being “anti-British”
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1938· 2 entries
In celebration of the centenary of the Great Trek
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Vorster graduated to become a registrar (judge's clerk) to the judge president of the Cape Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa but he did not remain in this post for long, setting up his first law pr
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1915· 2 entries
Born 1915-12-13.
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In Jamestown, Cape Province, Union of South Africa, the fifteenth child of a successful sheep farmer, Willem Carel Vorster and his wife, Elizabeth Sophia Vorster (née Wagenaar)
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