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...pillars of democracy are toppling into the dust in unhappy South Africa. Last month the Nationalist government packed the High Court (TIME, May 9); last week it undertook to pack Parliament as well. In the Lower House of Parliament, Prime Minister Johannes Strydom introduced a bill that would increase the membership of the South African Senate from 48 to 89 in such a way as to raise the Nationalist membership of the Upper House from 30 to 77, reduce the Opposition (United Party) from 18 seats...
...Strydom's bill is sure to pass, for his party has the votes. The new Nationalist Senators will give the government the two-thirds majority it needs in a joint session of Parliament to change South Africa's constitution and disenfranchise the 45,000 colored (mixed-blood) South Africans who still have votes...
...determined to hang on to their African treasure house. The task may not always be easy. The Congo lies between the all-black Gold Coast, where 4,500,000 Negroes are close to independence under Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, and unhappy South Africa, where Boer Prime Minister Johannes Strydom seems determined to enslave 9,000,000 Negroes for the benefit of 2,500,000 whites. Caught between, both geographically and psychologically, the Belgians are contemptuous of both black and white "extremes." They fear that South Africa's apartheid may spark race disorders that could spread north; that Nkrumah...
...Christiaan Smuts's United Party fought to the end. "The government is aiming at a puppet court which would ultimately be no better than a row of ventriloquists' dummies," shouted one M.P. before he was gaveled down. Many in the opposition were distressed more by what Strydom was doing to the courts than by what he was doing to the blacks. But Strydom had the votes: in the Lower House the bill passed its vital second reading...
Packing Parliament. Once the new court assembles (probably Oct. 1), Strydom expects it to endorse his apartheid (segregation) policies. Another likely possibility is that he will ask judicial sanction to strike out the present guarantee of equality to the English and Afrikaans languages in the schools and in the government. Should the court balk, Strydom is prepared to pack it a second time. And if he still has difficulties, his Nationalists are confident that they can pack Parliament as well, by appointing new members to the Senate. Eventually Strydom intends to make his country a Boer republic, seceding from...