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...Chosen Race. A stodgy Boer with a pale, square face and thick, white hands, Daniel Malan is the self-appointed high priest of the Afrikaners and of apartheid. He was born 78 years ago on a Cape Province farm called Allesverloren ("Everything Is Lost"), and attended the same Sunday school as his lifelong public enemy: Jan Christian Smuts, South Africa's greatest Prime Minister. Smuts, who fought the British in the Boer War, lived to become their best South African friend; Malan, who never heard a shot fired, is a violent Anglophobe...
...first major setback to all-out apartheid. If Pastor Malan overruled the court, he might easily lose the support of the old-fashioned Boer farmers, who respect their judges. If he accepted the court's decision, his fanatical Nationalist lieutenants might toss him aside...
...Place in the Sun. Now both Cape and Cairo are out of British control. The Union of South Africa severed all but the most tenuous connection with Britain; today its fierce "Boer" Nationalists, led by Prime Minister Daniel Malan, cast envious eyes at the unplowed ranges and abundant black labor in the colonies north of the Limpopo River.* In booming West Africa, which produces 45% of the world's cocoa, 8% of its tin, the black man has emerged from the jungle and demands his place...
Some 7,000 G.O.P. boosters crowded into the gymnasium of Washington's Georgetown University for an evening of political calisthenics, fried chicken and speechmaking. Outshining such professional entertainers as Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou, who emceed the show, and ex-Pug Buddy Boer, who crooned: New Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey, who posed in an Uncle Sam hat, with an "I Like Ike" button on his lapel, a raddled drumstick in hand and a campaign gleam...
...written in a light, humorous style. Telling the story in sprightly native idiom, Selina succumbs to digressions almost as often as to Boss Paul. Periodically, the novel stops to paint a tapestry of South African customs and manners, e.g., the rousing celebration of Dingaan's Day, a Boer national holiday, a bit of rural horseplay in which a gullible farmer eats lizard's eggs thinking they are stomach pills. Selina's voice bobs through the story, alternately playful and plaintive, but finally conveying the pain and humiliation for which she can never find a real remedy...