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Back in South Africa, he joined the anti-British Ossewa Brandwag. In 1937 he returned to Germany, learned to speak excellent German, grew a mustache like Hitler's, took the Nazi "leadership-training" course, became a Reichswehr parachutist...
...their countrymen held prisoners in Italy. He was well aware of the attacks he would face from his two leading opposition parties: Dr. Daniel François Malan's antiwar, pro-Nazi Herenigde and Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg's antiwar, pro-Nazi Ossewa Brandwag. As an indication that he was not too greatly worried, Smuts announced that, having been invited many times by President Roosevelt, he might take time off from political affairs to visit...
...durable old soldier and scholar who leads South Africa against the Axis, Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, has found it highly convenient to have his chief home opposition split into two warring camps. One is the noisy Ossewa Brandwag (Ox Wagon Sentinel) Party headed by burly Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg, who would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand...
...preserving freedom of speech and refusing demands that the opposition leaders be jailed for seditious utterance, wise old Prime Minister Smuts has encouraged van Rensburg and Malan to vilify each other rather than himself. Recently the Ossewa Brandwag has devoted almost more attention to the comedy of paunchy Dr. Malan trying to mount a horse than it has to the Smuts Government...
Last week Jew-baiting Dr. Malan lent very little gravity to his cause when he auctioned off his Cape Town home, Brandwag (Sentinel), for which he had paid ?4,400. He accepted a bid of ?7,900 from a Jewish merchant named Solomon Schach. Solomon Schach promptly made the South African score-of-the-week by giving the house the Yiddish name of Hashomer (Sentinel...