Word: malan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Assembly, United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss rose in deadly earnest to denounce the new bill as "bogus" and "a fraud." All week long the House hotly debated the bill. In all the hue & cry, the hurling of insults and shaking of fists, Malan was the calmest man there. He had the votes...
...Boers regard South Africa as their only home; unlike the British, they have nowhere else to go. Bruised into self-consciousness by British imperialism, which snuffed out their independence in the bloody Boer War (1899-1902), they are the backbone of Malan's Nationalist Party, which seeks to separate South Africa from the British Commonwealth...
Calvinist divine, a predikant (i.e., pastor) of the Dutch Reformed Church, he has a contagious sense of mission, derived somewhat illogically from Calvin's doctrine of predestination. As Malan sees it, God made unalterable 1) the "superiority" of His chosen race, the Boers; 2) the "inferiority" of all other races...
...Malan is convinced that he has been "elected" by God to lead the Boers to a "New Jerusalem," by which he means a Boer republic...
Thou Shalt Not. Malan got religion early. He was born of French Huguenot stock in a farmstead named Allesverloren (Everything Is Lost), which snuggled among the soaring mountains and vine-garlanded valleys of West Cape Province. In his parents' devout household, the rule was "Thou Shalt Not." Each evening "Danie" and his younger brother Fanie were called indoors to hear spade-bearded Papa Malan reading from his family Bible to his black servants...