Word: malanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a united front there was one notable exception. The Dutch Reformed Church, dominant in South Africa, supports the "white supremacy" attitude of the Malan government...
When the law of the state collides with the law of God, there is bound to be trouble for both state and church. Presumably, the racist Malan government of South Africa, when it banned marriages between people of white and Negro ancestry last year, hoped to avoid such complications, but it was clear that they were not to be avoided. South Africa's churchmen declared war on the "mixed marriages...
With South Africa's rabid racist Prime Minister Daniel Malan ready to seize on any excuse to step into Bechuanaland, which borders his country on the north, Britain's ministers seemed far more willing to heed his wishes than those of the Bamangwato. This week in Serowe, 35 Bamangwato elders refused to go to a special Kgotla meeting called by Britain's High Commissioner Sir Evelyn Baring to inform the Bamangwato of the government's decision. "We cannot," they said, "attend any tribal meeting in the absence of our true chief Seretse...
...timid efforts to propitiate Malan, His Majesty's government seemed to be sacrificing both the Bamangwato and its own principles...
Dour Daniel Malan growled that the outside world's hostile opinion was "interference mania." Last week Old Sphinx Havenga took issue with the Premier. "With world opinion against us," he warned, "it is not wise or practical at the present stage to take away any of the rights which have been given to non-Europeans." As leader of the Afrikaner Party, a small, less stridently chauvinistic ally of Malan's Nationalists, Havenga holds the balance of power in the government. He used it to force a slowdown in the racial program. Among other things, Malan had planned...