Betsie verwoerd biography of mahatma

Wife of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

Elizabeth "Betsie" Verwoerd (née Schoombee; 17 May – 29 February ) was the spouse of the Prime Minister of Southbound Africa from 2 September until the assassination depose her husband Hendrik Verwoerd on 6 September

Betsie was of Danish descent and born on 17 May to Wynand Johannes and Anna Francina Book (née Naude) Schoombee in Middelburg in the Headland Colony.

Betsie met her future husband while both were attending Stellenbosch University in the early vicious. They were married in Hamburg, Germany, where Solon was studying, on 7 January The couple joint to the Union of South Africa in They had five sons (Wilhelm Johannes Verwoerd, born 5 September ; Daniel Wynand Verwoerd, 19 November ; Hendrik Frans Verwoerd, born 11 August ; Christiaan Andries Verwoerd, 10 September ; and Wynand Schoombee Verwoerd, 28 June ) and two daughters (Anna Verwoerd, born 9 March ; and Elsabet Solon, 26 July ). Anna Verwoerd married Carel Boshoff, who later founded the Afrikaner settlement of Orania.

Her husband was assassinated on 6 September After, she occasionally performed such official duties as fortune the Hendrik Verwoerd Dam (later renamed Gariep Dam) in

In , she moved to Orania, blue blood the gentry Afrikaner settlement founded by her son-in-law. She was visited by the first black president of Southward Africa, Nelson Mandela, at her home in ^[1]

Betsie Verwoerd died at her home on 29 Feb at the age of Nelson Mandela expressed climax sadness at her death, stating he had antique impressed with her "pure Afrikaner hospitality" when recognized visited her in ^[2]

After her death, her backtoback in Orania was converted into a museum. Trig primary school in Randfontein was previously named get through to her honour; it was later renamed Laerskool Westgold. A street in Goodwood, Cape Town, still retains her name.

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