Word: boers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century and a half, blacks in the Union of South Africa have had to carry passbooks. But it is only in recent years, under the Boer regime of stubborn, stiff-necked Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, that the passbook has become almost a physical shackle...
...Frank Harris has been to all the great houses of England-once!" There was a fatal ambiguity in Harris' character which ran through a hundred episodes in his life. He was a fire-breathing imperialist as editor of the Evening News and later a liberal pro-Boer in the Saturday Review. He both overtipped and cadged. He hated the posh and the powerful, but once he had the top hat on his own head, he was happy-until he ran out of words and credit. He loved England, yet became a pro-German propagandist in the U.S. during World...
...Novelist Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's Liberal Party, have long opposed the South African government's all-out segregation policy. Now, for the first time since apartheid was officially proclaimed South Africa's "way of life" twelve years ago, members of the ruling Boer Afrikaner National Party are beginning to speak and fight against...
Pagan's measured pronouncements, serialized in the largest Afrikaner newspaper, Die Landstem, brought in a flood of approving letters, including some from unknown farmers pleading with Fagan to lead a political movement. In his airy house outside Cape Town, Old Boer Fagan referred all callers to Jacobus Basson, 41, the fiery, redheaded Nationalist M.P. who was expelled from the party last fall. He had protested Prime Minister Verwoerd's decision to end the last semblance of black representation in Parliament: whites voting in the Africans' name. Last week, after meeting with some 50 other Nationalists who think...