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Shouldering his way to Mr. Havenga's side came the Prime Minister, General Hon. James Barry Munnik Hertzog, bitter foe of General Smuts. The Constitution of General Hertzog's violent Nationalist Party used to contain a demand that Great Britain recognize the Right of Secession. This was stricken out only after the Imperial Conference at London in 1926 had invented what is called "Dominion Status"* (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926, et seq.). Returning to Capetown after the Conference, the Prime Minister announced that Dominion Status includes the Right of Secession, and secure in this right South Africanders have been...
Since 1923 Government House, Capetown, comfortable home of the Governor General of the Union of South Africa, has been occupied by Queen Mary's amiable younger brother. Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone. In 1928 at the earnest request of Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog, alive to the advantage of near royalty in Capetown, his term was extended for another three years. Last week His Majesty the King-Emperor was graciously pleased to appoint as his brother-in-law's successor George Herbert Hyde Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, his appointment to become effective...
Forward thinking, even brash in his public policies is General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. A former Boer commander who harried the British long and successfully from 1899 to 1902, General Hertzog only occasionally succumbs to his native Dutch caution, as he did last week upon contemplating the spectacle of stolid South African farmers hastening to buy U. S. motor cars on credit.* "The disease of purchasing motor cars," said he before the Orange Free State Nationalist Congress, "is a real menace to the welfare of the Union. The purchase...
...appeal by counsel for the defendant to South African Prime Minister, General the Hon. James Barry Munnik Hertzog brought a curt reply, "The sentence of flogging must be carried...
...eleventh hour attempt to swing South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote...