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...South African gold mine promoters, who had perpetrated one of the biggest swindles in their country's history (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947), last week got their comeuppance. In Johannesburg, horse-racing Norbert Stephen Erleigh, 46, and his rude, crude ex-partner, Joseph Milne, 53, were convicted on a combined total of 63 fraud and theft counts. The court said that their New Union Goldfields, Ltd., which had once controlled 160 companies valued at some ?30 million, "was, in reality, a gambling house...
...Erleigh was fined ?95,115 and Milne ?88,810, with total prison sentences to run 52 years if fines are unpaid. They were the stiffest sentences ever meted out in South Africa for such crimes. But Erleigh was not crushed. He appealed the verdict and published advertisements in the Johannesburg newspapers touting his new stock promotion, "Union Gold & Base Metals Corp...
...slightly colored" woman, was convicted and fined $56. An Anglican priest in Natal resigned his appointment as a marriage officer and surrendered his license to the government as a protest against the act. Last week ministers in South Africa were considering a call from Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston of Johannesburg to follow suit...
Prince Hubertus of Prussia, grandson of the late Kaiser Wilhelm, landed in South Africa to begin a new life as a sheep farmer. "This is going to be a considerable change from my vineyards at Wiesbach on the Rhine," he told newsmen in Johannesburg, "but your country has a wonderful future. Germany today is not a very happy place...
...first check on the Nationalists' white supremacy drive since they took office in 1948. Said the Johannesburg Star: "Havenga appears to be the only member of the government who is prepared to think in terms other than deprivation or restriction of [non-European] rights...