Word: malanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Africa was divided between festival and fear. The festival, opened last week by Prime Minister Daniel Malan's government, celebrated the 300th anniversary of the landing at Cape Town from the Dutch ship Goede Hoop of South Africa's first white settlers. They entered a vast, fertile country, empty except for a handful of aborigines. But as their ox-wagons rolled north, they collided with the southward-marching legions of the black Bantu tribes. The blacks now outnumber the whites 8,000,000 to 2,500,000. From that fact grows South Africa's fear...
...festival time Prime Minister Malan's formula for white supremacy-apartheid (racial segregation)-ran afoul of South Africa's highest court. His administration tottered, and considered dangerous alternatives. The restless and politically awakening Negroes scheduled nationwide demonstrations in protests against his policy. The possibility of civil war hovered over South Africa, and a desperate decision faced Daniel François Malan, who had sown the whirlwind...
...Chosen Race. A stodgy Boer with a pale, square face and thick, white hands, Daniel Malan is the self-appointed high priest of the Afrikaners and of apartheid. He was born 78 years ago on a Cape Province farm called Allesverloren ("Everything Is Lost"), and attended the same Sunday school as his lifelong public enemy: Jan Christian Smuts, South Africa's greatest Prime Minister. Smuts, who fought the British in the Boer War, lived to become their best South African friend; Malan, who never heard a shot fired, is a violent Anglophobe...
Spies & Counter Spies. Defense Minister Erasmus flippantly dismissed the attacks as "complaints of disappointed men," but privately he and Malan's Nationalist regime were worried. They issued edicts barring soldiers from joining Torch, and sent spies into barracks to root out secret Torch members, only to discover that many of the police spies themselves are clandestinely allied with Sailor Malan's movement. In addition to rolling up a membership of 200,000 South Africans who want a drastic-but democratic-change in government. Torch is enlisting the country's best and toughest soldiers...
...beds, blankets, carpets and doormats. Now old bags are being patched like tire tubes. A farmer who clothed his Negro laborers in jute, with holes cut for head, arms and legs, was fined not for underpaying and ill-treating his help, but for destroying bags. In desperation, the Malan government went to the black market...