Word: malanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oldest surviving son of the late Mohandas Gandhi thus began a campaign of civil disobedience to the anti-Indian, anti-Negro laws of South Africa. Last month, Gandhi warned Prime Minister Daniel Malan that the government's apartheid policy "would drive one to Communism, whether one wishes it or not." His aim: to provoke arrest and go to prison, thus "seek to change the heart of the government by my self-imposed sufferings...
...seems to me that Afrikaners have created the terror for themselves, as men so often create the monsters which eventually devour them. It was a sad day for South Africa when Malan and his program of apartheid took over her destinies . . . South Africa lost her soul when she lost Smuts...
...Awood, a truck driver, handsome, quiet, and colored. Sheila and Awood lived together. Then, with a child coming, they tried to get married. But Sheila's good friend, a white Anglican rector, was unable to marry them; the civil magistrate also refused. Reason: in 1949, Prime Minister Daniel Malan's government had passed a law prohibiting mixed marriages...
Worse than London. All this helps produce crime: South Africa has about 3,000 killings and 2,000 rapes a year. Crimes classified as "serious" have increased threefold in ten years (but have doubled in the past two years). Part of the increase is due to the Malan government having reclassified as "serious" crime such offenses as assaulting the police and "promoting race hostility." Every month 14,000 Negroes are arrested under the pass laws and 15,500 under the liquor laws. On the Gold Reef, there are three murders every two days. Johannesburg, with a total population...
...official explanation for their banishment: their squabbling over Seretse's marriage to a blonde London typist endangered tribal unity. The real reason: to placate South Africa's rabid, racist Prime Minister Daniel Malan, who is ready to seize any excuse to take over Bechuanaland, which borders his country to the north...