Word: malan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malan plans to bring the issue before the voters in the spring elections," Bok declared. "My guess is that he will...
...Premier Malan's Nationalist dominated Parliament passed an act which would similarly reduce the right of one million coloreds from equal suffrage in Cape province, where they are bunched, to apearate voting for a small number of representative. There was no two thirds majority. An immediate howl of protest was bolstered by a supreme Court ruling that the act was unconstitutional...
...Malan countered, claiming that the court was inferior to Parliament and was misusing its power. He next attempted to set up a superior High court of parliament. This, too, was called unconstitutional...
...first came after it investigated the vast potato and corn farms 100 miles east of Johannesburg, where convicts and contract laborers were hired by white farmers. The farmers had been accused of fierce brutality, but had been cleared by the Malan government. Drum dressed one of its staffers in rags, got him on to the farms, later slipped in a photographer...
Drum has never overcome the government's hostility, but it long ago conquered the suspicions of its Negro and colored readers. It is also regarded with approval by many anti-Malan whites in South Africa. Summed up one white: "Drum makes South Africa's segregated, despised non-whites feel like people...