Word: stellenbosch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbol of unchristian racial intolerance, summoned his Nationalist Cabinet and announced that he was quitting as Prime Minister. Malan made his decision not because he was sick or senile, but because his wife, Maria, had a serious heart ailment. The couple will retire to the university town of Stellenbosch, where Malan won his degree during the Boer...
Thanks to Daniel Malan, the Boer War is still going on. By rallying his defeated people, quickening their hatred of the British, Malan kept alive the bitter memories that a fellow student at Stellenbosch, the great Jan Christian Smuts, spent a lifetime trying to erase. Malan, a trained predikant (preacher) in the Dutch Reformed Church, taught his Boers that they are a chosen people, "elected" by God to build in South Africa a "new Jerusalem." He did most of the building himself, as the crusading editor of the anti-Semitic Boer paper, Die Burger; as the founder and leader...
...faculty member, on the grounds of possible selfincrimination, to answer [such] questions . . . impairs confidence in his fitness to teach. It is also incompatible with the standards required of him as a member of his profession." ¶In South Africa, Prime Minister Daniel Malan, as Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch, 1) gave his son his B.A. degree, and 2) issued a few stern Malan-props about a university's obligation to segregate its nonwhites. The nonsegregated Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand, said he, "are a blatant anomaly . . . A university, according to them, need not take into account...