Word: malan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist government, founded on the principle of apartheid (racial segregation), hates Great Britain and despises the British liberal tradition. It is a government run by and for the tough Afrikaans-speaking burgers who make up 60% of the Union's white population. A much-used Nationalist slogan: "One Country, One Flag, One Language" (Afrikaans...
...Nazi agitation and anti-war activities during World War II (TIME, June 28). The government then rescinded Field Marshal Smuts's order forbidding members of two antiSemitic, ultranationalist organizations-Ossewa Brandwag and the Afrikaner Broederbond-to hold civil service positions. The Broederbond, of which Prime Minister Malan is a member and his Minister of the Interior, Dr. Theophilus Dönges, vice chairman, is now the real ruler of the Union of South Africa. The sinister secret society controls a good two-thirds of the government members of Parliament...
...South Africa the calmest man seemed to be the new Prime Minister himself. Peering, paunchy Daniel Malan took a full week to form his government, while partisans cheered in hysteria and the opposition waited on tenterhooks...
Last week the waiting was over, but some of the hysteria lingered on. Established at last in the official Capetown residence Groote Schuur (Big Barn), bequeathed in his will to South Africa's Prime Ministers by Anglophile Cecil Rhodes, Anglophobe Malan had named a cabinet to match the opposition's worst fears: not a single representative of South Africa's English-speaking groups. Several of the new ministers, like Malan himself, belonged to the fanatically nationalist Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Sentinel) and Broederbond organizations, whose members had been banned from state employment during the war by Prime...
...ministerial act that set angry South Africans of all shades jampacking Johannesburg's Market Square in protest and touched off the biggest mass meeting ever held in Kimberley was that of Justice Minister Charles ("Blackie") Swart. To symbolize "the deep desire" of the Malan government "to relieve the people of the Union from the strain of the war years," Minister Swart released from prison five wartime traitors and saboteurs. One was 34-year-old ex-Boxer Sydney Roby Leibbrandt, who had been landed from a German U-boat to organize the pro-Nazi underground. South Africans remembered...