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...Nicholls, 77, grand old man of British South Africa. A lifelong champion of Empire who carried the white man's burden as soldier (on India's North West Frontier), colonial administrator and judge (among the Papuan cannibals), Nicholls was alarmed by Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Boer victory at the polls (TIME, April 27). Heaton's proposal: the predominantly British province of Natal should secede from the Union...
Heaton Nicholls' plan is for a federal South Africa, split int01) a Boer Republic in Transvaal, Orange Free State and part of Cape Province, 2) a British dominion in Natal and the rest of the Cape. Fire-eating veterans of the anti-Malan Torch Commando back Nicholls to the hilt, but the leaders of the Opposition United Party call his scheme "preposterous," and declare that a British attempt at secession might risk a second Boer...
What caused the blast was an unexploded shell that had stood in the Rand dust outside the Stoltzes' door for half a century-since some unknown cannoneer had misfired or forgotten it in the far-off Boer War (1899-1902). To the long-memoried Afrikaners who back Prime Minister Daniel Malan, that war is still as explosive as the shell that killed Grannie Stoltz. Last week, at the polls, they went far towards reversing its verdict...
...More Short Cuts. Boer nationalism was in fact the issue, though most of the noise was about apartheid-the religiously held dogma that 2,600,000 whites (Boer and Briton) should rule four times their number of blacks, half-whites and browns. Malan's racial stand was strident: "This is South Africa's last chance to remain a white man's country. Our aim is to safeguard the purity of the white race." His special strength lay on the veldt, among the Afrikaans-speaking farmers whose fathers had conquered the blacks only to see their early Boer...
...years, is now 78. His heir apparent is even more fanatic: Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 59, the Nationalist Minister of Lands. The so-called Messiah of Waterberg is hailed by his supporters as "First President of the coming South African Republic." His program seems to call for a stratified New Boer Jerusalem not very different from Plato's Republic: at the bottom, black slaves to hew wood and fetch water; in the middle, alien (i.e., British) traders to deal with petty commerce; at the top, the Boer elite, settled on the good earth and ruled by their priests (the predikants...