Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early light of freedom dawning over the continent. "In Africa today," said Nigerian Commerce Minister A. C. Nwapa in a BBC broadcast, "the sun is rising not in the East but in the West . . ." The Colonial Office agrees: "The Gold Coast is talked about with surprise in Johannesburg slums, among tribes outside Nairobi longing for more land, and in Uganda where men nurse secret grievances and suspect every . move we make. If it fails, a great hope will die in Africa. If it succeeds, then we may begin the addition of a new continent to the political world that...
...moderate Johannesburg Star also recoiled. "Both as a dangerous threat to public liberties, and as an irresponsible act on the Reichstag fire model," it editorialized, "the bill must be opposed by every means." There was no sign, however, that Malan's Nationalist majority in Parliament felt anything but. admiration for Justice Minister Swart's plan...
Married. Nicholas Monsarrat, 42, British author of the bestselling novel The Cruel Sea; and Philippa Crosby, 34, to whom he dedicated his book; he for the second time, she for the first; in Johannesburg, South Africa...
SOUTH AFRICA New Recruit A curly-haired British South African, awkward on his crutches after an automobile accident that shattered his right leg, hopped out of a green car one day last week at the entrance to Germiston Negro location, a sprawl of tin huts 15 miles east of Johannesburg. He was the first white recruit-and quite a catch-for the Passive Resistance campaign, organized by blacks, half-whites and browns against Prime Minister Daniel Malan's racial segregation laws...
...their automobile. Next day, along with 36 other defendants (6 whites, 18 Indians, 12 Africans), they were charged with "inciting Negroes to resist, break or obstruct" apartheid laws. Most white South Africans seemed to disapprove of Duncan's action. Reproving him for "deluding the Negroes," the liberal Johannesburg Star coldly observed that passive resistance, by frightening the whites, "strengthens the hand of reaction and repression...