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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...
...veterans blew their patriotic tops over Daniel Malan's bill because the constitution says that a two-thirds majority of both Houses of Parliament, in joint session, is necessary to repeal or alter franchise rights. The bill passed both houses, but in separate sessions with simple majorities...
Public view of the 2½-day veterans' congress was brief; Sailor Malan asked the press to leave before he outlined strategy for his group. His plans included: formation of five-man groups in every town to combat the Nationalist secret societies, 2) going underground if Prime Minister Malan bans his veterans movement. Said Sailor Malan: "Despite our spectacular beginning, we have only succeeded in focusing public attention on the dangers besetting South Africa. The battle has yet to commence in earnest...
...Prime Minister Malan hoped for Nazi victory in World War II, now disdains foreign opinion and despises Britain's liberal tradition. He is high priest of apartheid, which means "apartness"; social contact and intermarriage between racial groups is forbidden...
...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...