Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drink at the Gumkhana Club. In the Union of South Africa, Asians have long since been virtually eliminated from voting rolls, have been gradually squeezed out of the civil service, and, being lumped together with the "coloreds" (mulattoes), are subject to all the hardships and indignities of apartheid, and are referred to as "coolies...
Messiah in a Bathrobe. In the dark, Jeeps began circling the Blantyre bungalow of Dr. Hastings Banda, Congress President and self-styled "extremist of extremists," who has been leading the campaign against federation on the grounds that once the federation becomes independent, Nyasaland will be dominated by the apartheid-minded white minority of Southern Rhodesia. Scores of his followers, who regard him as their Messiah, gathered around to protect his house, but tear gas quickly dispersed them. Wrapped in a bathrobe, Dr. Banda was whisked to an airport and flown into exile in Southern Rhodesia...
Banda described to his screaming fans the plight of their brothers in Southern Rhodesia, where the whites keep the blacks in their place by a system of pass laws and curfew, and have shown a tendency to follow the apartheid spirit of South Africa. For the Central African Federation, 1960 is looming as the crucial year. Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, a onetime locomotive driver, wants to be on the road toward independence within the British Commonwealth by then. Banda's greatest fear is to see Nyasaland dominated by apartheid-minded whites unrestrained by the more benign rule...
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 creation of a "New Jerusalem"; i.e., a Boer republic, where "the sacred Boer race" would not suffer "pollution" by the black man. Among his achievements was a clause added to the national constitution: "The People of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...
...three British territories that make up the loosely knit Central African Federation, Southern Rhodesia comes closest to following the harsh segregationist ways of South Africa's apartheid. Negroes are barred from the Parliament, are excluded from most hotels, must use separate entrances to post offices and banks, are denied entrance to some shops, which serve them through hatches opening onto the sidewalk. By such measures. Southern Rhodesia's 211,000 whites have managed to keep a semblance of racial calm, but they have also alienated the blacks of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia from the whole idea of federation...