Word: malan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime Minister Daniel Malan, 79, announced last week that he is stepping down from his No. 1 party job: leader of the Nationalist Party in Cape Province. The news-a portent that the paunchy old Boer may soon retire as Prime Minister-brought to the surface a longtime struggle for the succession. There are two chief candidates: Transvaal Boss Johannes Gerhardus Strydom (who recently changed the spelling of his name to Strijdom because it is "more Boerlike"), and pipe-puffing Theophilus Dönges, Minister of the Interior. Strijdom (pronounced Stray-dom) is a fanatic apostle of racial segregation, who represents...
...vote that mattered most belonged to Daniel Malan, D.D., an elder of the Reformed Church himself. Malan voted for Dönges, the more moderate candidate, largely because his Finance Minister warned: "South Africa needs [foreign] capital, and will not get it if Strijdom becomes Prime Minister . . ." With Malan's backing, Dönges won. To soften the blow to the Boer fanatics in the party, Malan delivered a two-hour lecture full of surefire sniping at the British crown. "The South African Parliament," he thundered, "can abolish the monarchy with one vote. If our appeal court judges declared...
...black and white extremes. In next month's general election, Huggins is virtually certain to be confirmed as the first Prime Minister, but his United Party, which is almost exclusively British, faces powerful opposition from 69,000 Boers, most of them followers of South Africa's Daniel Malan. The Boers, mostly farmer-immigrants and copper miners, joined with a group of British blimps to form the Confederate Party. They oppose Huggins' gradualist policy of black-white partnership with the drastic simplicity of apartheid (racial segregation...
...eighth anniversary of the United Nations, Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist Party warned last week that South Africa will walk out of the U.N. if India and other Asia-African nations persist in bringing up motions to condemn South Africa's bitter apartheid (racial segregation). Said Malan: "The U.N. is a failure, a cancer eating at the peace and tranquillity of the world. Unless it is radically reformed, it should disappear from the face of the world...
...last week, though Mavis had left the Zulus, she had not yet found a haven in Malan's white South Africa. Officials took a dim view of Dr. Botha's "rescue" of the child. Said the local probation officer: "Mavis may not be of pure European descent." The Bothas were told that Mavis might be placed in "an institution for colored girls." For under South Africa's race laws, people who cannot prove their "pure European descent" are judged "colored," however fair their skin, unless they can show they have "habitually associated" with white persons. And Mavis...