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...most hated man in Africa stepped down from his pedestal last week. At 80, South Africa's Daniel Malan, the grim old Christian preacher who built the word apartheid (apartness) into the symbol of unchristian racial intolerance, summoned his Nationalist Cabinet and announced that he was quitting as Prime Minister. Malan made his decision not because he was sick or senile, but because his wife, Maria, had a serious heart ailment. The couple will retire to the university town of Stellenbosch, where Malan won his degree during the Boer...
...white Americans. When he spoke, instead, of improving race relations in the U.S., his hot-eyed young listeners denounced him as a hireling of "American imperialism." The American found this ironic, for India's rectitudinous liberals were as intolerantly racist in their attitude toward white men as Daniel Malan is in his dealings with the blacks...
...will obliterate what has been the finest native educational system in Africa. South African missionaries, who run over ninety percent of the native schools will probably continue teaching, but the curriculum, now dictated by Daniel Malan's Native Affairs Ministry, must change from education to propaganda for acceptance of segregation policies. To prevent any inter-racial mingling, the government will stop teaching any of the European tongues used in South Africa. This will no doubt widen the color gap, but it will leave teachers struggling to make the few texts written in Bantu fulfill their needs. And in this language...
...larger sense, the new policy is an attempt to set back a force which cannot be stopped. In the same way that segregation in American schools is doomed, the progress of education and the enlightenment it brings makes its constant advance a necessity. Soothing as it is, Malan's dream of the happy savage will not cure his internal disorders; the Union has offered the natives real education too long to force them to accept mere subsistence knowledge from their schools...
...disposal problem, for it is against the law in South Africa to burn wastepaper, and-until the government makes a ruling on their status-most South African trash collectors are refusing to pick up the hot books. The only thoroughly safe bestseller in South Africa these days is Malan's own Government Gazette, which each month publishes a list of as many as 50 newly banned books...