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South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel Malan has carried out a policy of relentless Jim Crow segregation and suppression against both blacks and Indians. Last week in the Union's third largest city, Durban, where some 124,000 of the white masters live dangerously close to native quarters teeming with twice as many blacks and about 110,000 Indians, the smouldering resentment of South Africa's Negroes sprang to flame. Inexplicably, they turned it against the only people more oppressed than themselves...
Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalists were in no mood to heed Epstein's protests. They were hard at work on their grand design to oust non-Europeans from any participation in South Africa's government (TIME, Oct. 25). The latest target of their campaign was the Natives' Representative Council, which had been set up in 1936 to assist Parliament in making laws affecting Negroes. Its six government-appointed white members and 16 Negroes (twelve of them elected) formed a purely advisory body. "The N.R.C.," one of its members once said, "is like a toy telephone...
...Malan's government did not seem to care unduly about the psychological effects of its actions. It was already working on the next phase of its plan: the abolition of Negro representation in South Africa's Assembly...
When Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nazi-aping Nationalist government came to power last spring (TIME, June 7), it promptly launched an anti-Negro, anti-Semitic propaganda campaign of which Goebbels himself would have been proud...
South African Communists watched, waited and acted. They sent shrewd, handsome Sam Kahn out on the hustings in the Western constituency of the Cape Province. Kahn campaigned sharply against Malan's apartheid (racial segregation) policy, condemned "the Nazi doctrine of white supremacy...