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When Nana Sita, president of the Transvaal Indian Congress, was sentenced to jail, he read a statement to the court: "I have deliberately and willfully committed a breach of the law under which I am charged. This I have done in full knowledge of its implications . . . . I do not plead for mitigation or mercy. I have decided to go to gaol so that my suffering and the suffering of the oppressed people of this land may ultimately bring about the conditions which will make South Africa a happy country for all, regardless of race, colour, or creed...
...interrogated. Miss Moolah, as she prefers to be known, informed me that she was born in Georgia some twenty-one years ago, not, as the promoters would have it, in the "Zulu wilderness of the Transvaal...
Portuguese Africa consists chiefly of two massive areas of steamy plain and plateau (Angola and Mozambique) lying athwart tropical Africa's only east-west railroad. Mozambique lives off shipping to & from its landlocked neighbors, the Rhodesias, and South Africa's Transvaal...
Back in 1945 the late Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts phoned Calvin Stowe McLean, president of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines: "Is it true that there's uranium in our gold mines?" McLean told Smuts: "Yes, but it is of no commercial value." Said Smuts (who knew about the Manhattan Project): "I want to know how much there is and how we can get it out." From this conversation grew a plan to combine uranium production with gold production (both from the same ore). In his Atomic Energy Act, Smuts put a clamp (20 years in prison...
...confirmed what many South Africans had long feared: blocked by law, the Nationalists might use force. At 78-year-old Premier Malan's side last week were two hotheads. They were Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 58, Minister of Lands, and Charles Robberts Swart, 58, Minister of Justice. Strydom, onetime Transvaal ostrich farmer, has one consuming ambition: to become the first president of an Afrikaner republic wh:ch is outside the British Commonwealth. "Britain," he says, "stands for equal rights for everyone, irrespective of color or smell." A rabid racialist, he runs thq National Party machine...