Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nationalist government of South Africa solved the problems created by these different ethnic groups coming to live together through the simple expedient of keeping them as far apart as possible. "Verwoerd does not like a scrambled egg population", the Rev. Reeves said; "therefore he is trying to unscramble the eggs...
...years younger than his admitted 71 years. He wore a fly whisk chained to his wrist with a band of silver, sported a gay red tie and a brand-new leather jacket. As he spoke, the old, grey-flecked spade beard bobbed emphatically: "I shall always be an African nationalist to the end . . . but I have never been a violent man ... I condemned and denounced (Mau Mau) oathing at many public meetings. I strongly disapprove...
Even Verwoerd's own National Party supporters are having their doubts. Cape Town's Nationalist newspaper. Die Burger, has recently veered away from Verwoerd's extremism, argues that coloreds should be represented in Parliament by coloreds. The party's paper in Johannesburg, Die Transvaler, warned fortnight ago that South Africa must change its views about racial questions "or prepare for catastrophe...
...After two days of soul searching, I have decided to back Dr. Verwoerd and the Nationalist government. I shall do so for the same reason that cinema audiences cheered the Prime Minister when he appeared on newsreels, for the same reason that kept hundreds of English-speaking South Africans from raising a public outcry at their loss of Commonwealth status...
...gets his freedom. Both Gichuru and Mboya now refer to Kenyatta as "our national leader," openly profess their intention of installing him as Kenya's first African prime minister. In part, this deference to Jomo is dictated by fear of the almost godlike status which 30 years of nationalist struggle has won Kenyatta among Kenya's black masses...