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Word: marthinus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1978-1978
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...Justice Marthinus Steyn, the administrator general of Namibia, said elections for a 50-member constitutional assembly will be held from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Ill Vorster Leaves Office, Rejects U.N.-Namibia Efforts | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...credit, the Turnhalle leadership has already had some success in moderating the views of the territory's whites, many of them of German descent. As soon as he took office late last year, the Pretoria-appointed administrator general, Justice Marthinus Steyn, began to enact a number of reforms, making equal pay mandatory for blacks and whites, removing the hated pass and immorality laws that still rule the lives of blacks in South Africa, and ending a ban on political meetings. Mudge, a pilot who tirelessly flies his own plane around territory, told an audience of grim whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: The Struggle for Namibia | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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