Word: malan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That day came in 1948 when, in an upset victory, their National Party, led by Daniel Malan, defeated the United Party founded by Jan Smuts. Although the basis of national separation of the races in South Africa dates back to 1909, when the British withdrew the rights of non-whites to sit in parliament, the new government moved inexorably to spread and enforce apartheid...
...very promising omen for peace in the area. The way to prevent more such violence in the future, he declared, was not to make concessions to blacks on the teaching of Afrikaans but to take even tougher law-and-order measures. Before leaving for West Germany, he appointed Petrus Malan Cillie, a white Transvaal judge, to launch a judicial inquiry into the riots. Both white and black newspapers found the action insensitive and called for a multiracial commission. Asked the Johannesburg Star in an editorial: "Is it possible for a white investigator, no matter how distinguished, to see the grievances...
...South Africa, the land long marred by an ugly policy of apartheid (separateness), which enables 3,800,000 whites to exert total dominance over 15 million black Africans, 2,000,000 Coloreds (half-breeds) and 600,000 Asians? The structure of apartheid, which the late Prime Minister Daniel Malan and his largely Dutch-descended Nationalists began to build in 1948, still towers over everything. No black can stay in a "white" hotel, own land or property in white areas, belong to a trade union, own a home, or vote in a countrywide election. Black political development is restricted to eight...