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Jannie was a big man on campus; Danie an obscure little swot. While Smuts rose like a rocket to become at the age of 31 a world-famed Boer War general, Malan studied theology under the protection of the Union Jack. His usual explanation of how he missed the fight: "There was martial law, and anyway the front was 500 miles away" (sometimes he makes it 700 miles). Jannie and Danie became lifelong public enemies. Smuts, who had fought the British, lived to become a British field marshal and one of the stout pillars of the British Commonwealth;* Malan...
They lived to hate one another and call each other names ("Smuts," said Malan, "is a renegade." "Malan," said Smuts, "is a fanatic"). Yet when Jannie died in 1949, Danie put his head in his hands and wept like a child...
...Stug." When Smuts made peace with the British after the Boer War, the Rev. Daniel Malan, M.A., D.D. (cum laude) was studying theology at Holland's Utrecht University. He wrote a learned 251-page dissertation (The Idealism of Berkeley) and earned on campus a reputation of being "very stug...
...Malan lasted only a few weeks in his first pastorate because his wine-growing parishioners failed to understand his urgent demands for prohibition. In his next parish, Graaff Reinet, a wool-growing town, he encountered a group of Boer children playing in the gutter with a gang of colored kids. Forty-two years later, as Prime Minister, he told the House of Assembly: "It was thus that the seeds of apartheid were planted in my mind...
...years as a parson, Malan drummed home his favorite theme: Africa for the Afrikaners. At 39 he read Marx, and wrote a 30-page pamphlet extolling socialism and praising Marx. For his assault on the Kaffirs he relied on cropped passages from the Old Testament. Example : ". . . Let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water...