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Rivals. One of Malan's school friends was a long-legged Boer farm boy named Jan Christian Smuts. The Smutses and the Malans were neighbors, and twice each month Jannie Smuts and Danie Malan sat down together to polish off a huge Sunday dinner of pumpkin and mutton. A brilliant scholar and athlete, young Smuts went off to Stellensbosch University to study poetry and philosophy. Four years later, Danie came plodding after. He was barely 20, yet he had already developed a double chin. Smuts met him at the station with a cry of "Dear Danie," tapped...
Jannie was a big man on campus; Danie an obscure little swot. While Smuts rose like a rocket to become at the age of 31 a world-famed Boer War general, Malan studied theology under the protection of the Union Jack. His usual explanation of how he missed the fight: "There was martial law, and anyway the front was 500 miles away" (sometimes he makes it 700 miles). Jannie and Danie became lifelong public enemies. Smuts, who had fought the British, lived to become a British field marshal and one of the stout pillars of the British Commonwealth;* Malan...
...Stug." When Smuts made peace with the British after the Boer War, the Rev. Daniel Malan, M.A., D.D. (cum laude) was studying theology at Holland's Utrecht University. He wrote a learned 251-page dissertation (The Idealism of Berkeley) and earned on campus a reputation of being "very stug...
Malan lasted only a few weeks in his first pastorate because his wine-growing parishioners failed to understand his urgent demands for prohibition. In his next parish, Graaff Reinet, a wool-growing town, he encountered a group of Boer children playing in the gutter with a gang of colored kids. Forty-two years later, as Prime Minister, he told the House of Assembly: "It was thus that the seeds of apartheid were planted in my mind...
...Glory of God. The fame of the "Boer Moses," as his critics call him, soon reached the ears of General James Barrie Munnik Hertzog, leader of the Boer opposition party. South Africa had just entered World War I at the side...