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...they edged forward, Catholic officials could point to one odd justification for integration provided by the government itself. At the same time that Cape Administrator Louis Munnik was threatening to close two integrated Catholic schools last week, he ordered two white state schools to accept six black students. Reason: the six happened to be children of the consul from Transkei, one of the black "homelands" to which South Africa granted independence but which no other nation recognizes. Foreign black diplomats are exempted from South Africa's racial system, and in view of such exemptions, argues Father Scholten, "we should...
...Glory of God. The fame of the "Boer Moses," as his critics call him, soon reached the ears of General James Barrie Munnik Hertzog, leader of the Boer opposition party. South Africa had just entered World War I at the side...
...League Covenant, with equal vigor opposed the harshness of the terms imposed on Germany, arguing that a generous peace was more likely to last. Between the wars, he was out of office for nine years. When war came again, the pro-Hitler Nationalist leader, General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, moved in Parliament that South Africa stay neutral. Smuts defeated him at the polls, led South Africa into the war at Britain's side. Later, as a delegate at San Francisco, he helped write the preamble of the United Nations Charter...
...Pretoria farm Death came last week to Great Britain's most famed South African enemy, stern, pious General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog, 76. Until recently he had been planning a comeback against South Africa's durably philosophical Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, 72. Hertzog protégés attempted a back-room coalition of four factions opposing Smuts. But the coalition failed to congeal. The sturdy old leader who hated Britain made no head way against the sinewy little internationalist who has long since looked beyond South African-British feuding to the possibilities...
...When Prime Minister Smuts came into office with the outbreak of war in 1939, General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Prime Minister for 15 years, gathered a mixed anti-war opposition. Dr. Malan shortly ousted Hertzog from the Party leadership, and the veteran Germanophile politician retired to his Wilge River farm near Pretoria...