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Met Volkje. Explaining the government's case, Minister of Labor Jan de Klerk, Strydom's brother-in-law, said: "God is sovereign and his sovereignty is vested in het volkje [the folk], who vest it in their chosen rulers. We therefore have the right to determine what must...
Packing Parliament. Once the new court assembles (probably Oct. 1), Strydom expects it to endorse his apartheid (segregation) policies. Another likely possibility is that he will ask judicial sanction to strike out the present guarantee of equality to the English and Afrikaans languages in the schools and in the government...
Strydom has two lines of action. He wants to break with the British Commonwealth and make South Africa a republic in which Afrikaners will hold the sovereign power and Afrikaans will be the only official language. In this republic, he wants complete segregation of the races and the disenfranchisement of...
One of the first steps of most TIME foreign correspondents on a new assignment is to hire a tutor for language lessons. Even the most fluent linguists usually need a refresher course in such staples as French, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. Some other languages with which TIME correspondents have...
Men in Murderland. Two brave British policemen volunteered to deliver the letters. They were Special Branch Superintendent Ian Henderson, 27, and his strapping blond assistant, 32-year-old Bernard Ruck. Henderson is a slim, nut-brown Scot who grew up with Kikuyu children on his father's coffee farm...