Word: malanism
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...week, spoke Heaton Nicholls, 77, grand old man of British South Africa. A lifelong champion of Empire who carried the white man's burden as soldier (on India's North West Frontier), colonial administrator and judge (among the Papuan cannibals), Nicholls was alarmed by Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Boer victory at the polls (TIME, April 27). Heaton's proposal: the predominantly British province of Natal should secede from the Union...
...More Legalism. The Negroes, seven-tenths of the population, had no votes at all; only 48,000 half-castes were eligible to vote. And even among the whites who did vote, Malan got less than a majority-but he won a sweeping electoral victory. From dorps (villages) and the poor-white slums of the Rand, his Nationalist supporters flocked to the polls to keep the land "pure" of "black barbarism" and "British legalism." Of South Africa's 1,600,000 voters, 86% voted: 640,000 for Daniel Malan, 760,000 against...
...weighting of rural constituencies, where Boers predominate, worked as it does under the county-unit system in the U.S. State of Georgia; in the House of Assembly the Nationalists won 94 seats, the combined opposition 61. Malan, though second in the popular vote, increased his majority to an overwhelming 60% (from 13 seats...
...Nations. "Great is Malan's victory," crowed Die Vaderland. "The brutal reality is that we are two nations . . ." said the Cape Argus. Cunningly, Daniel Malan tried to close the white ranks to his own political advantage. He offered a coalition with "all those who accept apartheid in full sincerity," hoping thereby to gain the two-thirds majority which he needs, but does not have, to 1) disenfranchise 48,000 half-caste voters in Cape Province, 2) eliminate English as an equal official language, 3) snap the last tenuous threads that bind South Africa to the Commonwealth...
Slaves at the Bottom. Strong-willed Daniel Malan, returned to power for another five years, is now 78. His heir apparent is even more fanatic: Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 59, the Nationalist Minister of Lands. The so-called Messiah of Waterberg is hailed by his supporters as "First President of the coming South African Republic." His program seems to call for a stratified New Boer Jerusalem not very different from Plato's Republic: at the bottom, black slaves to hew wood and fetch water; in the middle, alien (i.e., British) traders to deal with petty commerce...