Word: malan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More Short Cuts. Boer nationalism was in fact the issue, though most of the noise was about apartheid-the religiously held dogma that 2,600,000 whites (Boer and Briton) should rule four times their number of blacks, half-whites and browns. Malan's racial stand was strident: "This is South Africa's last chance to remain a white man's country. Our aim is to safeguard the purity of the white race." His special strength lay on the veldt, among the Afrikaans-speaking farmers whose fathers had conquered the blacks only to see their early Boer...
Lost in the political wilderness since the death of its inspirer, Jan Smuts, the opposition United Party fought back with hot charges that Malan threatens democracy and mocks the rule of law. "Vote now," was their slogan, "so that you may vote again." United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss, who was once Smuts's secretary, accused Malan's Nationalists of provoking racial strife, but labored hard to show that he could not be accused of undue sympathy for the Negro. "Of all races and colors," said he, "the black Africans have failed to contribute...
...More Legalism. The Negroes, seven-tenths of the population, had no votes at all; only 48,000 half-castes were eligible to vote. And even among the whites who did vote, Malan got less than a majority-but he won a sweeping electoral victory. From dorps (villages) and the poor-white slums of the Rand, his Nationalist supporters flocked to the polls to keep the land "pure" of "black barbarism" and "British legalism." Of South Africa's 1,600,000 voters, 86% voted: 640,000 for Daniel Malan, 760,000 against...
...weighting of rural constituencies, where Boers predominate, worked as it does under the county-unit system in the U.S. State of Georgia; in the House of Assembly the Nationalists won 94 seats, the combined opposition 61. Malan, though second in the popular vote, increased his majority to an overwhelming 60% (from 13 seats...
...Nations. "Great is Malan's victory," crowed Die Vaderland. "The brutal reality is that we are two nations . . ." said the Cape Argus. Cunningly, Daniel Malan tried to close the white ranks to his own political advantage. He offered a coalition with "all those who accept apartheid in full sincerity," hoping thereby to gain the two-thirds majority which he needs, but does not have, to 1) disenfranchise 48,000 half-caste voters in Cape Province, 2) eliminate English as an equal official language, 3) snap the last tenuous threads that bind South Africa to the Commonwealth...