Word: malanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last March Prime Minister Daniel Malan's apartheid (segregation) crusade bumped into a legal barrier. South Africa's Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a Malan law disfranchising 50,000 Cape Coloreds (persons of mixed white and black ancestry). Malan's answer was to set up Parliament as a "High Court" with powers above the Supreme Court. The opposition (which would have been outvoted anyway) refused to sit on the "High Court." Thus Malan's own party became the highest judicial authority in the land...
Last week the "High Court" obediently overruled the Supreme Court's decision on the Cape Coloreds. Minister of Justice Charles Swart, one of Malan's top lieutenants, sat beside the "High Court" president, listened tensely as he read the decision. But two days later, the Cape Province branch of the Supreme Court struck back, declared that the "High Court" was no court at all, and that its pronouncements were null & void. Dutifully on hand again. Swart sat through a seven-minute ordeal while the anti-Malan decision was read. When it was over, he grabbed...
...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...
...arresting Moroka and 16 lesser leaders, some of them Communist-liners, Malan's Nationalists plainly hoped to break the back of the disobedience movement. They were disappointed. The day after Moroka's arrest, 96 more smiling Negroes got themselves jailed in Port Elizabeth, another 20 in nearby Uitenhage. So many nonwhites were volunteering as prisoners that some jails refused to take any more...