Word: calvinia
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...into politics, first as M.P. for Calvinia, then as Minister of the Interior. His first important achievement was to insert a new clause in South Africa's constitution: "The people of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...
...editor (of Cape Town's Afrikaans Die Burger), Malan taught Afrikaners that South Africa belonged exclusively to them, that the Negro should know his place as a permanent "hewer of wood and drawer of water." In 1919 he was elected to Parliament as M.P. for the town of Calvinia. His first important achievement: inserting a new phrase in South Africa's Constitution: "The people of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...
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