Word: malanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
British, and Hertzog needed a hatchetman to denounce this "treachery." Malan quit his pulpit to become editor in chief of Cape Town's Die Buerger, an anti-Semitic daily. The title of his first editorial: "For the Glory...
...Seven." In 1933, a depression-struck world went off the gold standard. Gold-producing South Africa went broke, and so did thousands of Boer farmers. Pastor Malan promptly accused the government of "selling the Boer people to Hoggenheimer."* With seven supporters, Malan formed a "Purified Nationalist Party." "Hitler started with seven," he observed approvingly...
...Malan's greatest political asset, aside from his religious zeal, was his ability to provide scapegoats for the Boers' depression troubles. "Rich Jews," he said, "make poor whites." So do poor blacks. "The Negro does not need a house," said Malan. "He can sleep under a tree. So he can work for less pay than the white man. The Negro has a job while the white man walks the streets foodless and workless...