Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Africa's British (1,000,000) are clustered in Natal and Cape Province. They are mostly city folks-traders, bankers and bus drivers who have exported a little bit of Britain to South Africa. Against the Boers' fervent nationalism they have no spiritual counterforce. So long as they are making money (as they are), British South Africans tend to sit back and sip their tea while the Boers make the politics. And in their hearts many of them agree with the Nationalists' persecution of the Negroes. "The Dutchmen can handle the coons" is a frequent British...
...black Bantus. A third of them are still semibarbarous, living in kraals and reed huts on the native reserves; few speak the white man's language. Alongside the Bantus live 300,000 Indians, most of them shopkeepers and plantation laborers in sugar-growing Natal, and 1,100,000 Cape Colored, i.e., mulattoes, coffee-colored descendants of early Boer settlers...
...mulattoes until recently had limited civil rights, e.g., in Cape Province they could vote for white M.P.s. The blacks and browns have none, and in official census reports, they often do not count as population...
Thou Shalt Not. Malan got religion early. He was born of French Huguenot stock in a farmstead named Allesverloren (Everything Is Lost), which snuggled among the soaring mountains and vine-garlanded valleys of West Cape Province. In his parents' devout household, the rule was "Thou Shalt Not." Each evening "Danie" and his younger brother Fanie were called indoors to hear spade-bearded Papa Malan reading from his family Bible to his black servants...
British, and Hertzog needed a hatchetman to denounce this "treachery." Malan quit his pulpit to become editor in chief of Cape Town's Die Buerger, an anti-Semitic daily. The title of his first editorial: "For the Glory...