Word: malanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disobedience. Fear made the whites' reaction as volatile and unpredictably savage as the Negroes' wrath. "It's them or us," growled a Port Elizabeth cop. "A white skin now means death." Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist government sent army tanks and armored cars to patrol the highway between East London and Port Elizabeth; low-flying planes "exercised" over the "disaffected areas." In the cities, Boers and Britons alike queued up to buy guns; on the veld, Boer farmers organized rifle commandos, itched to "teach the Kaffirs a lesson they won't forget." "The time...
...Malan's Nationalists blame the African National Congress (A.N.C.) for the Negro bloodshed. They liken congress leaders to Kenya's Mau Mau terrorists, and accuse them of Communism. Actually, though there are Communists in A.N.C., such leaders as James Njongwe and Dr. James S. Moroka, the devoutly Christian president of A.N.C., owe far more to Gandhi than they do to Marx. Their policy, such as it is, is to protest apartheid (racial segregation) laws by a peaceful "civil disobedience" campaign, which they hope will catch the eye of the U.N.* Since the campaign started last June...
Levitation. In his eagerness to put down the blacks, South Africa's Godfearing, intolerant Prime Minister Daniel Malan had pushed through a law making Parliament, and not the supreme court, the final arbiter of what is, or is not, constitutional. But in the five black-robed Boer judges of the supreme court, Malan last week met his match...
...unanimous decision, the court decided that "no legislative organ can perform an act of levitation and lift itself above its own powers." This, in effect, voided Prime Minister Malan's attempt to disenfranchise Cape Province's 48,000 half-caste voters by a simple majority in Parliament, and bluntly reaffirmed that the court is still tops...
...Fingers 50. When South Africa's Supreme Court declared against Prime Minister Malan's anti-colored legislation, Malan: 1. Fired the Supreme Court...