Word: afrikaanse
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The chief risk he sees in South African investments stems from the government's apartheid policy. Once he made statements indicating that the racial problem in South Africa was no more serious than in the South. But since the Sharpeville riots a year ago, he has increased his opposition...
Even South Africa's rabidly nationalistic Afrikaans press was having second thoughts. The day before the riots, the Johannesburg Vaderland called for a "simpler and less hurtful pass system." The influential Cape Town Die Burger urged moderation on Prime Minister Verwoerd. But Verwoerd obstinately said that "nothing would be...
It was one of the country's most respected old Boers who broke the façade of Nationalist unity. Henry Allan Fagan, 70, until last year chief justice of the Union's Supreme Court, is both the country's most eminent jurist and its best-loved...
* He also speaks Afrikaans, Sesuto, Xosa, Sechuana, Shangaan and English.
Died. Daniel Francois Malan, 84, one-time (1948-54) Prime Minister of South Africa. Boer supremacist who sent the Afrikaans word apartheid ricocheting around the world; following a stroke; in Stellenbosch, Union of South Africa. Among Malan's ambitions were the preservation of Africa for the Afrikaners and the...