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...streets after curfew (11 p.m.). In Pretoria, 20 singing Negroes and one Indian were arrested for marching into the "white" section of the railway station. Eight hundred nonwhites were in jail in East London; 800 more in Port Elizabeth. The nonwhites hoped their defiance would moderate Prime Minister Daniel Malan's "unjust laws" (racial segregation) by i) filling the jails to overflowing, 2) catching the eye of the U.N. The African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress recruited 10,000 "volunteers" ready to go to jail when called. They were quite matter-of-fact about...
...morning last week a squad of South African detectives burst into the clinic in the tiny, tin-roofed Orange Free State village of Thaba N'chu and arrested 60-year-old Dr. James S. Moroka, the respected president of the anti-Malan African National Congress. He asked permission to attend his last patient and they agreed. Then Moroka, a devout Christian and moderate who believes that "white and black need each other," was led off to jail, charged with "promoting the objects of Communism," and released on $280 bail. He appealed to black South Africans to "stay calm...
...concession to its 250,000 Indians. Henceforth, the word "coolie" will be expunged from all textbooks in Natal. The gesture was not made because the British in Natal liked the Indians any better, but as a gesture of defiance to South Africa's white-supremacy Prime Minister Daniel Malan, whom they like even less...
Behind Shuttleworth's acquittal lay more than softheadedness on the part of Prime Minister Daniel Malan's hardhearted government. The Nationalists are thoroughly alarmed by the uproar provoked in South Africa's armed forces by Defense Minister Erasmus' highhanded attempt to oust veterans of World War II in favor of Nationalist political toadies (TIME, March 24). The troops responded...
...marching orders from the Communist-minded African National Congress. Says son Joseph: "Cooperation is useless. The new, true slogan is 'Africa for the Africans.' The whites should clear out." Joseph and others like him have come to believe in black supremacy as fervently as Prime Minister Malan believes in white supremacy...