Word: malanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trained as a Reformed Church predikant (he got his D.D. in Holland), Pastor Malan has dedicated his life to the proposition that men are created unequal. From the Calvinist doctrine of "election," he drew two startling, if not logical, conclusions: 1) that the Boers are God's chosen race in South Africa, and 2) that the "inferiority" of all other races, especially the Negro, is divinely ordained and therefore unalterable. As editor (of Cape Town's Afrikaans Die Burger), Malan taught Afrikaners that South Africa belonged exclusively to them, that the Negro should know his place...
Road to Fascism. Guided, he said, by God, Malan founded his own Nationalist Afrikaner Party in 1933. Its platform: South Africa for the Afrikaners. During World War II the pastor told his supporters: "If Germany wins, then we are in this . . . fortunate position-that Germany's war aims [i.e., the destruction of the British Empire] and our desire to get a Republic in South Africa are in agreement." Germany lost the war, but in 1948 Pastor Malan won a narrow victory in South Africa's elections. His party warned South Africans that if Smuts won, little white girls...
...three years' rule, Prime Minister Malan has dragged South Africa far along the road to fascism. His cabinet, two-thirds of whose members belong to the secret Afrikaner Broederbond, launched an anti-Negro, anti-Jewish campaign. The Natives' Representative Council was summarily abolished. Appropriations for Bantu housing were slashed; native slums proliferated, breeding crime and misery. To cut down the number of opposition voters, Malan coolly disenfranchised the Natal and Transvaal Indians...
...reaction was sharp and strong. Opposition Leader J. G. Strauss, now the leader of Smuts's old United Party, called it "a great act of betrayal." So did a group of enraged South African war veterans, who formed the anti-Malan "Torch Commando" to protect the Constitution. Their leader was a cousin of Malan's and an R.A.F. wing commander in the Battle of Britain: Adolph ("Sailor") Malan. In tampering with the franchise, said the Opposition, Prime Minister Malan had violated the "Entrenched Clauses" in South Africa's Constitution. Torch backed four colored voters who took...
Last week five black-robed judges (three of them appointed by Prime Minister Malan) unanimously said no. Malan's action was "null and void." Said Chief Justice Albert van de Sandt Centlivres: "To say that the Union of South Africa is not a sovereign state simply because Parliament hasn't the power to amend the Constitution is to state a manifest absurdity . . . It would be surprising . . . to be told that the great and powerful country, the United States, is not sovereign and independent because its Congress cannot pass any law it pleases...