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...Post-Dispatch also called for an official investigation "into the circumstances which placed our country before the world in the light of a barefaced liar." The Sacramento Bee said the Eisenhower Administration had "left matters so subordinates could wreck the conference and possibly provoke war." Headlined the San Fran cisco Chronicle: MORAL LEADERSHIP OF U.S. HARMED...
Home for Idlers. The government's own answer to the explosion apartheid had generated was more apartheid. Hendrik Verwoerd's basic racist policies would continue, said Minister of Lands Paul Sauer, 62, sitting in as head of the Cabinet for the hospitalized Prime Minister. Minister of Justice François Erasmus proposed to rid the cities of "idlers and other superfluous Bantu" by sending them back to the Bantu areas in the back country. White employers had already made "idlers" of thousands by firing Africans who had stayed away from work, and Erasmus' police set to work...
Roving police squads sped through the main streets of Cape Town itself, swinging sjamboks (leather whips) and grabbing "intimidators" who, according to Justice Minister François Erasmus, "stood at street corners giving certain signs" to keep Africans from going to work. Near Durban, African stay-at-homes stoned and beat other natives returning from work in town. Black police carrying Zulu-style shields and assagais (short spears), moved in, killing four and wounding...
...both the troublesome Pan-African Congress, which had fomented the recent unrest, and the larger African National Congress-the only two groups that can speak for the nation's 9,750,000 Africans. "They want to bring the white government to its knees," cried Minister of Justice François Erasmus before Parliament. "The government has decided to bring a halt to the reign of terror." Next day Verwoerd went a step further, declared a state of emergency in all the major population centers of the nation. It gave the government power to censor the press, close or take...
...François Christiaan Erasmus, 64, as Minister of Justice, has powers beyond control of any court, can "name" anyone a Communist or "ban" his right to travel and meet with others by simple decree-with no evidence needed. In the first month after he took over last December, stubby, handsome Frank Erasmus issued banning orders on eight people, an alltime record. And when last week the government decided to outlaw the only two African organizations of any substance, it was stiff, humorless Erasmus who stood in Parliament to introduce the legislation. The son of a Boer farmer, Erasmus...