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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...
...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...
Once there were two little boys named Harry and Davy, one eight and the other five, whose father was killed in the Boer War. Their mother died soon after, and they went to live with their father's people on a farm in Nova Scotia...
...Flogging of a Kaffir" [TIME, June 7]: Had your correspondent used a fraction of the diligence he showed in tracking down and recording an anonymous "Boer farmer's" comments on the case, he could not have failed to mention in passing the countless numbers of South Africans-both "Boer farmers" and others-in whom the crime aroused the same shocked views as those held by the trial judge...