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...Malan has a naively simple solution to the problem of native crime: hire more cops, build more prisons. (The jail population of South Africa is greater than that of Britain, which has four times its population.) But increasing numbers of South Africans-both Boer and British-are beginning to realize that jails are not enough. They recognize-though somewhat reluctantly-that, short of mass murders, there is nothing that can prevent the black man from eventually attaining political and economic rights, either by law or by revolution. It is for the white man to choose which...
Hard Solution. Jan Christian Smuts used to say, "If we see any wrong, let's put it right without bothering about possible repercussions on our grandchildren." But Daniel Malan, stiff-necked in his self-righteousness, has chosen to force a hard solution. The heirs of Smuts in Parliament are ineffectually led by boyish-faced Jacobus Gideon Strauss, an anglicized Boer who apes Smuts's mannerisms but lacks his master's voice. Outside Parliament they have found an idealistic but impulsive leader in Adolf ("Sailor") Malan, a cousin of the Prime Minister...
...they are not "nigger lovers." Arguing in Parliament for technical training for black workers, Jacobus Strauss declared, "Higher skills are in any case beyond the capacity of Negroes." Oddly enough, it was an ardent Malanite who set him straight. "Negroes can do skilled work if trained for it," replied Malan's Labor Minister Barend...
...advance of Boer nationalism. British South Africans, for so long politically apathetic, had at last bestirred themselves. A moral awakening was taking place in South Africa. There were signs of new alliances to meet the common threat to constitutional liberties. Even many law-abiding Boers were distressed by Premier Malan's extra-legal methods, and some of his own party thought he was going too far. They found ominous the sights & sounds of Boer chauvinism: the way Malanite musclemen break up opposition meetings with eggs, tomatoes and stones; the budding of a private Nationalist army (Skietkommando) along the lines...
Fervent Daniel Malan's divided nation has become a tense and uneasy place. His attempt to put his regime above the courts seemed certain of passage in Parliament, and is plainly a big step to committing South Africa to a one-party totalitarian state. It is no better for being done in God's name...