Word: malanism
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British, and Hertzog needed a hatchetman to denounce this "treachery." Malan quit his pulpit to become editor in chief of Cape Town's Die Buerger, an anti-Semitic daily. The title of his first editorial: "For the Glory...
...Seven." In 1933, a depression-struck world went off the gold standard. Gold-producing South Africa went broke, and so did thousands of Boer farmers. Pastor Malan promptly accused the government of "selling the Boer people to Hoggenheimer."* With seven supporters, Malan formed a "Purified Nationalist Party." "Hitler started with seven," he observed approvingly...
...Malan's greatest political asset, aside from his religious zeal, was his ability to provide scapegoats for the Boers' depression troubles. "Rich Jews," he said, "make poor whites." So do poor blacks. "The Negro does not need a house," said Malan. "He can sleep under a tree. So he can work for less pay than the white man. The Negro has a job while the white man walks the streets foodless and workless...
Vorster went to jail, and the Nazis lost the war, but in 1948 the Malanites had a chance to win South Africa's elections. Malan stumped the veld, urging South Africans to vote for segregation for the Negroes and separation from the British. "God," he announced, "is on our side...
Workaday apartheid, as applied by Malan, is simply another word for turning down the screws on the blacks. It is 100,000 Negroes jailed each year for failing to carry a pass. It is 60-year-old Jane Zuma, a Johannesburg washerwoman, trudging ten hot miles to deliver her mistress' laundry because she is not allowed to ride on the white man's buses. It is Veteran John Kumalo, a talented Negro broadcaster, beaten up and jailed on the way to his broadcasting studio, and released three days later, innocent of any offense. In Malan...