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...proposal was laid before Parliament by Malan's Minister of Justice, towering (6 ft. 6 in.) Charles R. Swart. Given to melodramatic gestures (he once loped into Parliament with a cat-o'-nine-tails under his arm to show his attitude toward Negroes), Swart needed no props this time to dramatize his proposal. He wanted authority to suspend most of South Africa's laws whenever he may consider that "public safety" demands it. The law would allow the government-and Swart specifically-to proclaim a state of emergency throughout South Africa, or in any part...
...Swart's bill was too much. It brought the United Opposition leader, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, to his feet for a rare, effectual fighting speech. "Fear now stalks the land," he cried. "South Africa has become a crisis country . . . Today the inner clique of Nationalist leaders are in charge of a juggernaut . . . They ride it in arrogance and vengeance ... I charge these . . . leaders with the destruction of unity between the whites; with the use of fear and the trickery of a word (apartheid) to gain power-a word which has become an evil symbol throughout the world; with having...
...anger among the whites, distress among the black moderates. James Njongwe, the handsome Negro physician who runs the Cape Province chapter of the African National Congress, sat, head in hands, lamenting the murder of Sister Aidan, who had been his classmate at Witwatersrand University. "I'll never forgive Swart," he said. Swart's ban on Negro gatherings preceded the riot. "If we leaders had been allowed to address our people, there'd have been no rioting," said Njongwe. "The government should issue an ultimatum," said one of East London's whites. "Hand over the murderers...
...roll was considerably higher. Visitors to the location reported several dozen fresh graves dug in the location cemetery. Government officials pressed the cops to soft-pedal reports of Negro casualties. "Think what [Indian Delegate] Madame Pandit would do with the native death toll at the U.N.," Justice Minister Charles Swart explained...
Last week the "High Court" obediently overruled the Supreme Court's decision on the Cape Coloreds. Minister of Justice Charles Swart, one of Malan's top lieutenants, sat beside the "High Court" president, listened tensely as he read the decision. But two days later, the Cape Province branch of the Supreme Court struck back, declared that the "High Court" was no court at all, and that its pronouncements were null & void. Dutifully on hand again. Swart sat through a seven-minute ordeal while the anti-Malan decision was read. When it was over, he grabbed...