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...South Africa's Lower House of Parliament passed the second (and decisive) reading of Prime Minister Johannes Strydom's bill to pack the Senate as he has already packed the judiciary (TIME, May 9). Object of the bill: to give Strydom's Boer Nationalists the two thirds majority they need in a joint ses sion of Parliament to override the South African constitution...
Rent last week by a constitutional crirsis, South Africa was agitated by fears that the Union formed after the Boer War might be put asunder...
After the Boer rebellion was crushed in 1902, the British had tried generosity. The constitution of the new Union of South Africa provided for a Senate with equal membership from each of the four provinces in the Union. It is this equilibrium which is threatened by the Senate-packing bill introduced a fortnight ago by Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom (TIME...
Strydom's bill provides for eight new Senators to be nominated by Strydom's government, 33 more to be chosen by the majority parties in Transvaal and Cape Province. Since the Boer Nationalists are in power in both big provinces, the bill would give the Strydom government a clear two-thirds majority in a joint session of Parliament-enough to override South Africa's constitution. Strydom's first objective is to disenfranchise the 45,000 mixed-blood folk who still have votes in South Africa, but once he has the power, many South Africans fear that...
Angry Voice. Strydom's reaction was to dismiss his Boer critics as backsliders. But one angry voice he would find it hard to ignore: that of stubborn old Nicolaas Havenga. 78, Deputy Premier in Daniel Malan's Nationalist government and once Strydom's rival for power. At week's end, Havenga spoke out from retirement. "I am unhappy about this bill," Havenga said. "It may be constitutional but even Nationalists are unhappy about it. The two parties should make a new approach . . . This upheaval going on won't do the country any good...