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Prime Minister Daniel Malan, 79, announced last week that he is stepping down from his No. 1 party job: leader of the Nationalist Party in Cape Province. The news-a portent that the paunchy old Boer may soon retire as Prime Minister-brought to the surface a longtime struggle for the succession. There are two chief candidates: Transvaal Boss Johannes Gerhardus Strydom (who recently changed the spelling of his name to Strijdom because it is "more Boerlike"), and pipe-puffing Theophilus Dönges, Minister of the Interior. Strijdom (pronounced Stray-dom) is a fanatic apostle of racial segregation, who represents...
...Reformed Church himself. Malan voted for Dönges, the more moderate candidate, largely because his Finance Minister warned: "South Africa needs [foreign] capital, and will not get it if Strijdom becomes Prime Minister . . ." With Malan's backing, Dönges won. To soften the blow to the Boer fanatics in the party, Malan delivered a two-hour lecture full of surefire sniping at the British crown. "The South African Parliament," he thundered, "can abolish the monarchy with one vote. If our appeal court judges declared a [Boer] republic invalid, I hope I would still have enough breath left...
...able to protect itself from the black nationalism of the Gold Coast and the white nationalism of South Africa. Last week, barely half a year since the House of Commons gave the ambitious project its blessing, the Central African Federation was jarred by racial unrest among black man, Boer and Briton. 69,000 Boers. Sir Godfrey Huggins, 70, the wiry little surgeon who first conceived the notion of lumping the Rhodesias and Nyasaland into one big Central Africa (TIME. Sept. 21), was beset on both sides by black and white extremes. In next month's general election, Huggins...
...country with about as many English-speaking people as North Carolina, South Africa exports a high quota of readable novels. The latest on this fall's list is Daphne Rooke's Ratoons. Novelist Rooke (Mittee) takes in the conflict of Zulu against Hindu, Englishman against Boer on a turn-of-the-century sugar plantation, but the drama of racial tensions serves mainly as a backdrop for a melodrama of personal relationships...
Fond of her gentle mother, fearful of her bluff, cruel father, Helen Angus is romping through her teens with artless innocence when Ratoons begins. Then the hothouse climate brings her emotions to quick bloom; she falls in love with a half-Boer boy named Chris and soon is pregnant. Before she can nerve herself to tell anyone, Chris departs for the Boer War, and Helen's mother, herself pregnant, dies while giving birth to a puny boy. When the child dies, Helen's father substitutes Helen's illegitimate baby for his own Nicky...