Word: boers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...churches and the only swimming pool for African kids in Johannesburg, Sophiatown is one of three "black spots" on the western side of the city, which the government has recently zoned as "predominantly European." For whites and Negroes to live in such close proximity strikes South Africa's Boer Nationalists as improper and possibly sinful...
Johannes Gerhardus Strydom (pronounced Straydom), 61, the new Prime Minister of South Africa, is a descendant of those Dutch settlers who 115 years ago fought their way across Zululand to the fertile Transvaal. Young Strydom grew up during the Boer War, and studied at the University of Stellenbosch, cradle of thwarted Boer aspirations. After taking his law degree at the University of Pretoria, he returned to his father's farm, where he raised ostriches. He improved a natural gift for histrionics by speech-making in front of mirrors. In 1929 he was elected to Parliament for the backveld district...
...Strydom to power. Outside, an excited crowd waited for the first appearance of their new Prime Minister. "Dis die leeul" (It is the Lion), they cried, and hoisted him shoulder high. No smile, no sign of expression crossed the Lion's feline face as supporters began singing the Boer song Vrye Volk. Wailed Daniel Malan when he heard of it: "I have miscalculated . . . I have miscalculated...
...Nationalist Cabinet and announced that he was quitting as Prime Minister. Malan made his decision not because he was sick or senile, but because his wife, Maria, had a serious heart ailment. The couple will retire to the university town of Stellenbosch, where Malan won his degree during the Boer...
Thanks to Daniel Malan, the Boer War is still going on. By rallying his defeated people, quickening their hatred of the British, Malan kept alive the bitter memories that a fellow student at Stellenbosch, the great Jan Christian Smuts, spent a lifetime trying to erase. Malan, a trained predikant (preacher) in the Dutch Reformed Church, taught his Boers that they are a chosen people, "elected" by God to build in South Africa a "new Jerusalem." He did most of the building himself, as the crusading editor of the anti-Semitic Boer paper, Die Burger; as the founder and leader...