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South Africa's Premier Strydom is not ashamed of his country's racial behavior (see box); in fact, he would like to export his policies to the rest of Africa. Last week, the Prime Minister of South Africa's immediate neighbor to the north, Britain's big new Central African Federation (composed of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland), made it clear where he stood...
...Durban, the Reconstituted Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa charged that Prime Minister J. G. Strydom "is doing everything in his power to enlist the aid of the Dutch Reformed Church to achieve a totalitarian state in South Africa," warned that South Africa is "being led toward a police state" by an Afrikaner brotherhood said to be backed by the major Dutch Reformed Churches...
Prime Minister Strydom, who is bound and determined that the whites shall wield all the power in a nation where they are outnumbered four to one, wanted to get the last non-white voters-the 45,000 colored (mixed-race) folk-off the white voting lists. The High Court said he could not, without a two-thirds vote in Parliament. So the Nationalists decided to pack the Senate to get the bill through, and to pack the court to make sure that it was held constitutional. At that point, many who agreed with Strydom's policy of white dominance...
...militants climbed in their cars and descended on Pretoria, the administrative capital, from all over South Africa. Led by a lady drummer, the women marched on the government offices, many of them singing Die Stem, the official national anthem. They were met by the Minister of Transport, deputizing for Strydom, but all that he could tell them was: "There can be no compromise when the life [of the white man] is at stake...
...bastions was the Senate, a review body with power to bring about a joint session of Parliament to reconsider bills deemed by the Senators to be unwise. For four years the Senate held out against Nationalist attack. But the Nationalists of tough, gimlet-eyed Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, in control of the Assembly, were able to enlarge and pack the Senate with their nominees and rob the review chamber of its powers...