Word: malan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates represented some half-million supporters in all parts of South Africa, roused to resistance against the increasingly severe racial segregation policies of 77-year-old Prime Minister Daniel Malan,*a distant cousin of handsome, pipe-smoking Sailor Malan...
Specifically, the veterans charge Prime Minister Malan with violating the constitution as a result of his new franchise bill. This transferred the 50,000 "colored" (i.e., persons of mixed Negro and white blood) voters of Cape Province from the white voting roll to a separate roll. "Natives" (i.e., full-blooded Negroes) had been taken off the general voting roll...
...veterans blew their patriotic tops over Daniel Malan's bill because the constitution says that a two-thirds majority of both Houses of Parliament, in joint session, is necessary to repeal or alter franchise rights. The bill passed both houses, but in separate sessions with simple majorities...
Public view of the 2½-day veterans' congress was brief; Sailor Malan asked the press to leave before he outlined strategy for his group. His plans included: formation of five-man groups in every town to combat the Nationalist secret societies, 2) going underground if Prime Minister Malan bans his veterans movement. Said Sailor Malan: "Despite our spectacular beginning, we have only succeeded in focusing public attention on the dangers besetting South Africa. The battle has yet to commence in earnest...
...Prime Minister Malan hoped for Nazi victory in World War II, now disdains foreign opinion and despises Britain's liberal tradition. He is high priest of apartheid, which means "apartness"; social contact and intermarriage between racial groups is forbidden...