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...Capetown's anti-government Cape Argus sputtered indignantly over Klerksdorp's "incredible apostles of apartheid," derided their ban against "mixed traveling on man's last journey" as "departheid." Cried the Cape Argus...
...Capetown, South Africa reader, TIME had an equally interesting effect. He wrote that a young lady living in a small town in New York gave her copy of the Feb. 15, 1948 issue of TIME to the Red Cross, which put it aboard a British passenger ship at Madeira, where he got hold of it. When he got to Capetown, where he was working his way as a seaman, he wrote a letter thanking the young lady, whose stenciled name and address were on the cover of her copy of TIME. The upshot of that was that they began...
Denis Compton is a British cricketer and a friend of Freddie's. But in the atlas of British sports-South African edition, at least-cricket and pugilism are as far removed as Capetown and Lord's, home pitch of London's swank Marylebone Cricket Club. Last week, as Freddie fought his fight in Johannesburg, Denis-in Capetown to play with the M.C.C. team against South Africa's Western Province Cricket Club-invited him to drop in at Newland's Cricket Pavilion...
Last week the waiting was over, but some of the hysteria lingered on. Established at last in the official Capetown residence Groote Schuur (Big Barn), bequeathed in his will to South Africa's Prime Ministers by Anglophile Cecil Rhodes, Anglophobe Malan had named a cabinet to match the opposition's worst fears: not a single representative of South Africa's English-speaking groups. Several of the new ministers, like Malan himself, belonged to the fanatically nationalist Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Sentinel) and Broederbond organizations, whose members had been banned from state employment during the war by Prime...
Elder Statesman Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, took a 783-mile hop from Capetown to Johannesburg to crown the "Wool Queen," next day crowned Miss South Africa, in the presence of Miss Britain, Miss France and Miss America (Barbara Jo Walker). Coming up shortly: national elections...