Word: boer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stug." When Smuts made peace with the British after the Boer War, the Rev. Daniel Malan, M.A., D.D. (cum laude) was studying theology at Holland's Utrecht University. He wrote a learned 251-page dissertation (The Idealism of Berkeley) and earned on campus a reputation of being "very stug...
Malan lasted only a few weeks in his first pastorate because his wine-growing parishioners failed to understand his urgent demands for prohibition. In his next parish, Graaff Reinet, a wool-growing town, he encountered a group of Boer children playing in the gutter with a gang of colored kids. Forty-two years later, as Prime Minister, he told the House of Assembly: "It was thus that the seeds of apartheid were planted in my mind...
...Glory of God. The fame of the "Boer Moses," as his critics call him, soon reached the ears of General James Barrie Munnik Hertzog, leader of the Boer opposition party. South Africa had just entered World War I at the side...
...Seven." In 1933, a depression-struck world went off the gold standard. Gold-producing South Africa went broke, and so did thousands of Boer farmers. Pastor Malan promptly accused the government of "selling the Boer people to Hoggenheimer."* With seven supporters, Malan formed a "Purified Nationalist Party." "Hitler started with seven," he observed approvingly...
Malan has a naively simple solution to the problem of native crime: hire more cops, build more prisons. (The jail population of South Africa is greater than that of Britain, which has four times its population.) But increasing numbers of South Africans-both Boer and British-are beginning to realize that jails are not enough. They recognize-though somewhat reluctantly-that, short of mass murders, there is nothing that can prevent the black man from eventually attaining political and economic rights, either by law or by revolution. It is for the white man to choose which...