Word: malan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force sent to depose him bogged down in the mud, Tshekedi sent a team of oxen to haul it out); later (1950) for stormily objecting to the celebrated marriage of his nephew Seretse Khama to Ruth Williams, a blonde Englishwoman, when Britain feared that any provocation would prompt Daniel Malan's Union of South Africa to seize Bechuanaland. Sprung from London exile, Tshekedi returned (1956) to Bechuanaland, helped set up a voting council to replace the autocratic chief he had so long exemplified...
...first African leader to be TIME'S Man of the Year. Since then, Africa has been making history on its own, awakening the rest of the world to Africa's own awakening. TIME cover stories illustrate the way the story has developed. In 1952 there was Daniel Malan, the dour Boer Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, who died last week, out to keep what he regarded as the inferior black majority of his countrymen in permanent subjection. After him came the face of Black Africa nationalism- Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah...
Died. Daniel Francois Malan, 84, one-time (1948-54) Prime Minister of South Africa. Boer supremacist who sent the Afrikaans word apartheid ricocheting around the world; following a stroke; in Stellenbosch, Union of South Africa. Among Malan's ambitions were the preservation of Africa for the Afrikaners and the creation of a "New Jerusalem"; i.e., a Boer republic, where "the sacred Boer race" would not suffer "pollution" by the black man. Among his achievements was a clause added to the national constitution: "The People of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...
...Jewish capitalism," he hated the threat to the 3,000,000 whites of South Africa of 11,000,000 slowly awakening blacks, coloreds (mixed bloods) and Indians. He was one of the first advocates of apartheid (segregation ). When he took over as Prime Minister in 1954, succeeding Daniel F. Malan, a man of the same stamp, his administration rammed through laws that packed the Supreme Court and Senate, began the mass resettlement of natives into reserves. He was suspicious of all outsiders, and frequently warned travelers leaving for England to beware of "the fatal British aristocratic embrace." He went abroad...
Since 1948 the Nationalist Government, under Prime Minister Malan and later Strijdom, has passed heavy restrictive legislation designed to protect South African whites from non-European influence. No African (black) may own land outside the Reserves, nor is he allowed to move from one area to another without written permission from the Government. The Population Registration Act provides a Register of the population in order to distinguish clearly between racial groups. The Bantu Education Act of 1949 imposed strict restrictions on the education of blacks in the Union, carefully segregating schools and curricula...