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...Boers are a little different. Fifty-six years ago, in Following the Equator, Mark Twain described the Boer as: "deeply religious, profoundly ignorant, dull, obstinate, bigoted ...proud of his Dutch and Huguenot origin and its religious and military history . . . He has stood stock still in South Africa for two centuries and a half, and would like to stand still till the end of time...
...Seven." In 1933, a depression-struck world went off the gold standard. Gold-producing South Africa went broke, and so did thousands of Boer farmers. Pastor Malan promptly accused the government of "selling the Boer people to Hoggenheimer."* With seven supporters, Malan formed a "Purified Nationalist Party." "Hitler started with seven," he observed approvingly...
Malan has a naively simple solution to the problem of native crime: hire more cops, build more prisons. (The jail population of South Africa is greater than that of Britain, which has four times its population.) But increasing numbers of South Africans-both Boer and British-are beginning to realize that jails are not enough. They recognize-though somewhat reluctantly-that, short of mass murders, there is nothing that can prevent the black man from eventually attaining political and economic rights, either by law or by revolution. It is for the white man to choose which...
...wrong, let's put it right without bothering about possible repercussions on our grandchildren." But Daniel Malan, stiff-necked in his self-righteousness, has chosen to force a hard solution. The heirs of Smuts in Parliament are ineffectually led by boyish-faced Jacobus Gideon Strauss, an anglicized Boer who apes Smuts's mannerisms but lacks his master's voice. Outside Parliament they have found an idealistic but impulsive leader in Adolf ("Sailor") Malan, a cousin of the Prime Minister's and an ex-R.A.F. group captain in the Battle of Britain. Sailor Malan has organized...
Slow Awakening. Confused though they might be by the problem of a white minority in a black man's continent, the heirs of Jan Christian Smuts yet saw very clearly last week the dangers of dictatorship in the swaggering advance of Boer nationalism. British South Africans, for so long politically apathetic, had at last bestirred themselves. A moral awakening was taking place in South Africa. There were signs of new alliances to meet the common threat to constitutional liberties. Even many law-abiding Boers were distressed by Premier Malan's extra-legal methods, and some...