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...some members of his own racist party. But no other South African could match the support that Vorster enjoyed from the combined forces of the party's large right wing, its secret Broederbond (Brotherhood) inner sanctum, and the Dutch Reformed Church, in which Vorster's brother Jacobus is a leading minister. More important, to a nation thrown into traumatic shock by the assassination of its leader, Vorster was the living symbol of what most South African whites wanted most: security at any cost...
...gleaming heirlooms loaned to the museum and shown on the opposite page. The tankard has a coin imbedded in its lid and is engraved with roses representing the arms of the Roosevelt family; made by Gerrit Onckelbag, it was possibly part of the dowry of Catharina Hardenbroeck, who married Jacobus Roosevelt in 1713. The fat little teapot is the work of Jesse Kip, and was probably made between 1720 and 1722 for the Douw family. The caudle cup, also the work of Onckelbag. is engraved with the stars-and-windmill arms of the Van Cortlandt family, was used for dispensing...
South Africa last week was in the grip of a war scare. Who the enemy was, nobody quite knew. But the danger was there all right, declared Defense Minister Jacobus Johannes Fouche, who rose in Cape Town's Senate to cry: "Military action against our country is being openly advocated and secretly planned. There exists in Africa the potential to call up an army of liberation. In spite of threats we shall not yield. We must be militarily strong." With that. Fouche announced plans for the biggest military buildup in South Africa's peacetime history. The new budget...
...crop of physicians against the doctors who emigrated, the year's net gain was a mere 151. Vacated faculty jobs at South African universities go begging (19 at important Natal University alone), and the reasons for the discrepancy between supply and demand are widely understood. Says Jacobus Petrus Duminy, Vice Chancellor of Cape Town University: "It's as though [the educators] are cooped up in a trailer tied to an engine of fate driven by a force with which they are powerless to communicate...
Pagan's measured pronouncements, serialized in the largest Afrikaner newspaper, Die Landstem, brought in a flood of approving letters, including some from unknown farmers pleading with Fagan to lead a political movement. In his airy house outside Cape Town, Old Boer Fagan referred all callers to Jacobus Basson, 41, the fiery, redheaded Nationalist M.P. who was expelled from the party last fall. He had protested Prime Minister Verwoerd's decision to end the last semblance of black representation in Parliament: whites voting in the Africans' name. Last week, after meeting with some 50 other Nationalists who think...