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...Daniel Malan, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, the worst racist alive...
...Pits. Mayor Miller agreed. He called an emergency meeting of his city council at 8 a.m., launched an Albertynsville relief fund that topped $45,000. From Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist cabinet came an offer of temporary shelter for the homeless in the big, unused army barracks at Lenz, three miles west of Albettynsville. At first, "Chief" Eric Kumalo, 48, the black-bearded Negro racketeer whose goon squads charge Albertynsville's shanty dwellers 5 shillings a month "protection" money, threatened to beat up any Negro family moving to Lenz. But not for long: protected by Mayor Miller...
Wired & Whipped. Both Bailey and Sampson faced opposition from the Malan government, whose nightmare is "whites drowning in a black sea." The government threatened to choke off Drum's paper supply for such things as printing pictures of Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands with a Negro. Police have also taken to shadowing Drum staffers, checking on where they go and whom they see. Despite the threats, Drum has made its mark with a series of spectacular exposes...
...first came after it investigated the vast potato and corn farms 100 miles east of Johannesburg, where convicts and contract laborers were hired by white farmers. The farmers had been accused of fierce brutality, but had been cleared by the Malan government. Drum dressed one of its staffers in rags, got him on to the farms, later slipped in a photographer...
Drum has never overcome the government's hostility, but it long ago conquered the suspicions of its Negro and colored readers. It is also regarded with approval by many anti-Malan whites in South Africa. Summed up one white: "Drum makes South Africa's segregated, despised non-whites feel like people...