Word: malan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sultans, maharajas, Prime Ministers and assorted plenipotentiaries who went to London for the coronation, South Africa's Daniel Malan was among the last who expected to be serenaded by the British. His government had not been exactly chummy with Whitehall, and Dangerous Dan Malan let it be known as soon as he landed that too many Britons were saying too many unpleasant things about racial persecution in South Africa. "Busy-bodyism," he called...
...Nationalist South Africa, Prime Minister Daniel Malan ordered South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg, to obey his three-year-old law, which compels segregation of blacks, browns and whites. Under the law, 70,000 blacks and 22,000 Indians, many of them prosperous shopkeepers, will be ejected from their homes and stores in downtown Johannesburg and moved, without a penny's compensation, to Jim Crow shantytowns far away from the white suburbs...
...week, spoke Heaton Nicholls, 77, grand old man of British South Africa. A lifelong champion of Empire who carried the white man's burden as soldier (on India's North West Frontier), colonial administrator and judge (among the Papuan cannibals), Nicholls was alarmed by Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Boer victory at the polls (TIME, April 27). Heaton's proposal: the predominantly British province of Natal should secede from the Union...
Heaton Nicholls' plan is for a federal South Africa, split int01) a Boer Republic in Transvaal, Orange Free State and part of Cape Province, 2) a British dominion in Natal and the rest of the Cape. Fire-eating veterans of the anti-Malan Torch Commando back Nicholls to the hilt, but the leaders of the Opposition United Party call his scheme "preposterous," and declare that a British attempt at secession might risk a second Boer...
Slaves at the Bottom. Strong-willed Daniel Malan, returned to power for another five years, is now 78. His heir apparent is even more fanatic: Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 59, the Nationalist Minister of Lands. The so-called Messiah of Waterberg is hailed by his supporters as "First President of the coming South African Republic." His program seems to call for a stratified New Boer Jerusalem not very different from Plato's Republic: at the bottom, black slaves to hew wood and fetch water; in the middle, alien (i.e., British) traders to deal with petty commerce...