Word: malan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nazi-aping Nationalist government came to power last spring (TIME, June 7), it promptly launched an anti-Negro, anti-Semitic propaganda campaign of which Goebbels himself would have been proud...
South African Communists watched, waited and acted. They sent shrewd, handsome Sam Kahn out on the hustings in the Western constituency of the Cape Province. Kahn campaigned sharply against Malan's apartheid (racial segregation) policy, condemned "the Nazi doctrine of white supremacy...
...Malan government has already begun work on restricting immigration and tightening requirements for citizenship. Explained Dönges: "[This] aims at the protection of the State against a world outlook and an outlook on life foreign to that generally current in South Africa...
Words & Actions. To cut down the number of opposition voters, Malan coolly disfranchised the Natal and Transvaal Indians. Malan has announced that he proposes to eject from Parliament the representatives of the Negroes, and to deprive the "colored" (mixed-blood) voters of Cape Province of their direct franchise. The government already has passed a law compelling the Cape's colored voters to appear before an electoral officer, magistrate or police officer to prove that they can actually write their names and addresses. Since most colored citizens prefer to steer clear of race-baiting Nationalist police officials, the effect...
Nationalist Party extremists openly favor the establishment of an authoritarian Calvinist republic, separate from the British Commonwealth. At present, Malan prefers to soft-pedal this plank in his party's platform until he has firmly consolidated his power. Eric Louw, South Africa's representative to the British Commonwealth Conference (see above), has been less discreet. "[In the Republic]," Louw said not long ago, "only those would have a vote who had shown by word and action undivided loyalty to South Africa and to the Republic. This excludes all Jews, also the jingoes [English-speaking South Africans...