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...Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote in choosing at least twelve M. P.s heretofore. The Cape Province blackamoors are all partisans of Prime Minister Hertzog's deadly rival, General Jan Christiaan Smuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Blackamoor Bill | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Picturesque Jan Christiaan Smuts was on hand in Cape Town for the Parliamentary fray, last week, having come in from his tiny, iron-roofed shack on the veldt near Pretoria. There he recently completed, in philosophical mood, a work called Holism, setting forth "a philosophy of life reconciling everything within the Universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Blackamoor Bill | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Married. Catherina Petronella Smuts, daughter of famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts, onetime Premier of the Union of South Africa and a founder of the League of Nations; and William Bancroft Clark, great grandson of the late famed orator John Bright, of Street, Somersetshire; in Irene, Transvaal, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...Windsor Castle. Not until his sister became Queen-Empress did his future really brighten. At present his duty is merely to preside impartially, in the Union of South Africa, over the incessant squabbles of the factions headed by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Garters | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

What was described as the last racial issue in the Union of South Africa was last week removed when Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and former Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts, now leader of the opposition in the House of Assembly (lower House) at Cape Town, agreed that henceforth the Union Jack should be flown from official buildings in all large towns. In addition a new South African flag, in every respect co-equal with the Union Jack, was decided upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: South African Flag | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

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