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The man who buys a lottery ticket and prays to God to win may be a better Christian than the man who frowns on this as sinful, said a Dominican priest last week. The Dutch Reformed Church Synod on Public Immorality in Transvaal, South Africa had condemned lotteries as dishonest...
The Servant Problem. The nation's 10 million nonwhites and many of its 3,000,000 whites were not so sure about all this. "A disaster," said an opposition newspaper, the Cape Times, of Verwoerd's appointment, and in the black slum townships ringing the South African cities...
Since the defeated United Party largely appeals to the 1,200,000 English-speaking South Africans, while the Nationalists concentrate on the 1,650,000 Boer descendants who speak Afrikaans, the London Economist was moved to wonder whether the Afrikaners had emerged as the master race, "with the English, the...
With voting day only two weeks off, Premier Johannes Strijdom last week carried South Africa's election campaign to his sun-baked home town of Nylstroom in central Transvaal. Awaiting him in Nylstroom's town hall was a capacity crowd of leathery Boer farmers, their bosomy wives, and...
But for Verwoerd the unkindest cut of all was from his own Nederduits Gere formmeerde Kerk (Afrikaans for Dutch Reformed Church), which has always taken the pro-Afrikaner view in all his disputes. It said that it could not support the "width of impact of the church clause." At the...