party, tried to plug every gap in the segregation order. The process con-
tinued under Verwoerd's successor, B. J. Vorster, prime minister from
1966 to 1978. The Smuts government had interned Vorster during World
War II because he was a general in the extraparliamentary
Ossewa
Brandwag (Oxwagon Sentinel), which opposed South Africa's participa-
tion in the war. Since 1962, he had been minister of justice in Verwoerd's
cabinet.
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