Word: gerhardus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British had tried generosity. The constitution of the new Union of South Africa provided for a Senate with equal membership from each of the four provinces in the Union. It is this equilibrium which is threatened by the Senate-packing bill introduced a fortnight ago by Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom (TIME...
South Africa's Nationalist Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom last week tore down the last big constitutional barrier to one-party racial control over his divided land. He had already packed South Africa's High Court bench, by adding five new judges favorable to the government; now he pressed through Parliament a bill endorsing his court-packing decree, and ensuring that a quorum of the new court would be able to override the South African constitution...
...Prime Minister of South Africa, gimlet-eyed Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 61, presented his first program to Parliament last week. It was pure Malanism. Strydom asked Parliament to reduce the authority of South Africa's highest courts, which for three years have thwarted old Daniel Malan's attempt to disenfranchise 50.000 Cape Colored (mixed blood) voters. He was less extreme than his enemies had feared (he did not yet demand, for example, that South Africa sever ties with Britain), a fact which gave his program almost the appearance of moderation. But moderation, Strydom style, includes recommending legislation which would...
...Johannes Gerhardus Strydom (pronounced Straydom), 61, the new Prime Minister of South Africa, is a descendant of those Dutch settlers who 115 years ago fought their way across Zululand to the fertile Transvaal. Young Strydom grew up during the Boer War, and studied at the University of Stellenbosch, cradle of thwarted Boer aspirations. After taking his law degree at the University of Pretoria, he returned to his father's farm, where he raised ostriches. He improved a natural gift for histrionics by speech-making in front of mirrors. In 1929 he was elected to Parliament for the backveld district...
...Nationalists will choose between two principal candidates to succeed Malan: Finance Minister Nicolaas Havenga, 72, and long-necked Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 61, a onetime ostrich farmer who runs the Nationalist Party machine and who is even more fanatically racialist than Daniel Malan. Last week retiring Dr. Malan gave his nod to Havenga, the more moderate of the two but nonetheless a man who could be trusted to hew to the harsh line laid out by Preacher Malan...