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...Nations. "Great is Malan's victory," crowed Die Vaderland. "The brutal reality is that we are two nations . . ." said the Cape Argus. Cunningly, Daniel Malan tried to close the white ranks to his own political advantage. He offered a coalition with "all those who accept apartheid in full sincerity," hoping thereby to gain the two-thirds majority which he needs, but does not have, to 1) disenfranchise 48,000 half-caste voters in Cape Province, 2) eliminate English as an equal official language, 3) snap the last tenuous threads that bind South Africa to the Commonwealth...
Capetown's anti-government Cape Argus sputtered indignantly over Klerksdorp's "incredible apostles of apartheid," derided their ban against "mixed traveling on man's last journey" as "departheid." Cried the Cape Argus...
Over the years we have learned a good deal about our Canadian readers. They include all of Canada's 20 cabinet ministers, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Skater Barbara Ann Scott, and businessmen like Edward P. Taylor, president of Argus Corp., etc. A majority of them are businessmen, of whom 75% are executives. More than 75% of all our readers in Canada live in cities...
Died. John Martin, 64, "Uncrowned King of South Africa" for three decades; after long illness; in Johannesburg. Martin managed the Argus newspaper chain (15 dailies, 13 weeklies), headed famed "Corner House," which controlled 16 gold mines and had a hand in a dozen more...
PILGRIMS THROUGH SPACE AND TIME (341 pp.)-J. O. Bailey-Argus...