Word: malanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blast was an unexploded shell that had stood in the Rand dust outside the Stoltzes' door for half a century-since some unknown cannoneer had misfired or forgotten it in the far-off Boer War (1899-1902). To the long-memoried Afrikaners who back Prime Minister Daniel Malan, that war is still as explosive as the shell that killed Grannie Stoltz. Last week, at the polls, they went far towards reversing its verdict...
...inhabitants (so far as their wishes are known) do not want to sever their relationship with the British Colonial Office in London. Reason: they are black. In central Africa today, the black man feels he has more to lose in local white governments (e.g., Malan's Union of South Africa) than by rule from a benevolent Britain...
Prime Minister Daniel Malan waddled to a platform in Pretoria last week and delivered a two-hour campaign speech. Although he is rheumatic and turning 79 next month, the old man had plenty of stamina. A few days earlier a London paper had mistakenly reported him dying. Said Malan: "My opponents wish me dead. [The opposition] says I am too old to address a meeting standing on my feet. Well, here I am." Amid the frenzied cheers of his Boer supporters, he added: "I promise to retire before...
Next week in South Africa, 1,635,000 white men & women and 46,000 colored men (persons of mixed blood, whom Malan tried vainly to remove from the voting rolls) will choose between Malan's Nationalists, who won power from the late Jan Smuts in 1948, and the opposition United Party of Jacobus Strauss. "Every vote cast against the Nationalists," trumpets Malan in his perorations, "is a vote for Russians, Indians, the United Nations, the British Labor Party...
...moment, the country's 9,000,000 voteless, restless Negroes are lying quiet. Most hope that the United Party will win as the lesser of evils, but a smaller more militant group believes that a Malan victory will sting the blacks into closing their ranks completely. Said one of these: "Malan has advanced Negro unity by 50 years." Political experts think that Malan will probably win, helped by the emotion-charged cries of "Mau-Mauism...