Word: malan
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...University of Stellenbosch is the oldest Afrikaans-language university in South Africa and by far the most prestigious. Six of the country's eight Prime Ministers were graduates. One of them, Daniel Malan, was a university chancellor and another, Hendrik F. Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was a professor in the sociology department. The university's present chancellor is State President P.W. Botha, though he did not attend Stellenbosch...
...Broederbond's most zealous racists, Daniel Malan, founded the present-day National Party in 1934 and finally achieved the Afrikaners' revenge in the election of 1948. He defeated Smuts and the British influence under a new slogan: apartheid. It was not really new, of course. The South Africa Act of 1909, passed by the British Parliament, had barred blacks from sitting in the legislature. The Natives Land Acts of 1913 had established a few black "reserves" and claimed the remaining 85% of the nation for whites. Interracial sex was proscribed as far back...
...these were fairly primitive efforts in asserting white power. The apartheid of Malan's Afrikaner Nationalists represented an all encompassing ideology, a vision of how life should be organized. One of their first measures, the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, did just what it promised. But exactly who belonged to which race? The Population Registration Act of 1950 provided elaborate definitions and regulations, and even now about 1,000 people every year apply to get reclassified from one race to another. That same year the Group Areas Act empowered the government to uproot thousands of people and move...
Presiding over this state of folly was one of Malan's most dogmatic successors, Hendrik Verwoerd. In a radio broadcast, Verwoerd declared, "The policy of separate development ((apartheid)) is designed for happiness, security and stability . . . for the Bantu as well as the whites." Said Andries Treurnicht, onetime chairman of the Broederbond and subsequently founder of the breakaway Conservative Party: "We believe that justice is best attained by way of differentiation or separate development...
Others are joining the fray. The most notable is Wynand Malan (no relation & to the founder of apartheid), who announced that he was resigning from the Nationalists to campaign for his own seat as an independent. "The National Party finds itself in a stage where it is losing its ideology and yet is unable to replace it with a policy," said Malan. "I did not clash with the National Party, I clashed with my conscience. And in the end, conscience wins...