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...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...
...House of Assembly, United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss rose in deadly earnest to denounce the new bill as "bogus" and "a fraud." All week long the House hotly debated the bill. In all the hue & cry, the hurling of insults and shaking of fists, Malan was the calmest man there. He had the votes...
World War II brought the Malanites to prominence. They were openly pro-Nazi. The Rev. Jacobus Daniel Vorster, preaching at Potchefstroom University, told the Afrikaner Student Union: "Hitler's Mein Kampf points the way to greatness. Afrikaners must be fired by the same holy fanaticism that inspires the Nazis...
...wrong, let's put it right without bothering about possible repercussions on our grandchildren." But Daniel Malan, stiff-necked in his self-righteousness, has chosen to force a hard solution. The heirs of Smuts in Parliament are ineffectually led by boyish-faced Jacobus Gideon Strauss, an anglicized Boer who apes Smuts's mannerisms but lacks his master's voice. Outside Parliament they have found an idealistic but impulsive leader in Adolf ("Sailor") Malan, a cousin of the Prime Minister's and an ex-R.A.F. group captain in the Battle of Britain. Sailor Malan has organized...
...abolish South Africa's color bar, but both are willing to give the blacks more education and opportunity. In the heightened emotions of the present crisis, they find it necessary to show that they are not "nigger lovers." Arguing in Parliament for technical training for black workers, Jacobus Strauss declared, "Higher skills are in any case beyond the capacity of Negroes." Oddly enough, it was an ardent Malanite who set him straight. "Negroes can do skilled work if trained for it," replied Malan's Labor Minister Barend...