The next year, white South Africans voted to sever ties with the Commonwealth. Verwoerd Airport, Verwoerd Hospital, Verwoerd schools, and of course Verwoerd streets, spread across the country. On the night of the speech, Macmillan wrote in his diary. “I had to comfort those of British descent; inspire the Liberals; satisfy Home Opinion; and yet keep on good terms—at least outwardly—with the strange caucus of Afrikaner politicians who now control this vast country.”
