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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Rustle on the Veld | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

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