Word: boer
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...dictum, "Equal rights for all civilized men." Hugginsmen believe that a color bar is still necessary in primitive Africa, but gradually they hope to remove it, as the Negroes "come of age." Opposing Huggins are the diehard Confederates. Many of Northern Rhodesia's white copper miners are Boer immigrants who support the segregation policies of South Africa's Daniel Malan. Only 64,000 whites-and 444 Africans -voted last week. They decided for the Federalists, and "racial partnership," by better than 4 to 1 vote. The results in terms of seats in Central Africa's first Federal...
...last week. The focus of debate was the British protectorate of Uganda, but the real context was wider. From Cape Town to Suez, the fabric of empire is visibly disintegrating. In the north, the vast Sudan fortnight ago turned its back on Britain (TIME, Dec. 7). In the south, Boer South Africa talks of becoming a republic, and of leaving the Commonwealth. In between (see map), there is war in Kenya, unrest in Nyasaland, and in the Rhodesias a harassed attempt to build up a Central African Federation...
Prime Minister Daniel Malan, 79, announced last week that he is stepping down from his No. 1 party job: leader of the Nationalist Party in Cape Province. The news-a portent that the paunchy old Boer may soon retire as Prime Minister-brought to the surface a longtime struggle for the succession. There are two chief candidates: Transvaal Boss Johannes Gerhardus Strydom (who recently changed the spelling of his name to Strijdom because it is "more Boerlike"), and pipe-puffing Theophilus Dönges, Minister of the Interior. Strijdom (pronounced Stray-dom) is a fanatic apostle of racial segregation, who represents...
...Reformed Church himself. Malan voted for Dönges, the more moderate candidate, largely because his Finance Minister warned: "South Africa needs [foreign] capital, and will not get it if Strijdom becomes Prime Minister . . ." With Malan's backing, Dönges won. To soften the blow to the Boer fanatics in the party, Malan delivered a two-hour lecture full of surefire sniping at the British crown. "The South African Parliament," he thundered, "can abolish the monarchy with one vote. If our appeal court judges declared a [Boer] republic invalid, I hope I would still have enough breath left...
...able to protect itself from the black nationalism of the Gold Coast and the white nationalism of South Africa. Last week, barely half a year since the House of Commons gave the ambitious project its blessing, the Central African Federation was jarred by racial unrest among black man, Boer and Briton. 69,000 Boers. Sir Godfrey Huggins, 70, the wiry little surgeon who first conceived the notion of lumping the Rhodesias and Nyasaland into one big Central Africa (TIME. Sept. 21), was beset on both sides by black and white extremes. In next month's general election, Huggins...