Hendrik Verwoerd

University of Stellenbosch University of Berlin

Verwoerd was born in the Netherlands, thus making him the only South African prime minister who was not born in the country. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd he had an elder brother named Leendert and a younger sister named Lucie. His father was a shopkeeper and a deeply religious man who decided to move his family to South Africa in 1903 because of his sympathy towards the Afrikaner nation after the Second Boer War.

Source: Wikipedia