Word: stellenbosch
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...unkindest cut of all was from his own Nederduits Gere formmeerde Kerk (Afrikaans for Dutch Reformed Church), which has always taken the pro-Afrikaner view in all his disputes. It said that it could not support the "width of impact of the church clause." At the church's Stellenbosch Seminary, Theology Professor B. B. Keet, a blunt Afrikaner, spelled out what may prove the turn of the tide in South Africa's official segregation policy. "It will be suicidal," said Keet, "for the white group in South Africa to continue to try to apply the impractical and immoral...
...constitutional. At that point, many who agreed with Strydom's policy of white dominance disagreed with what he was doing to South Africa's legal and political traditions. The official opposition, and the businessmen, and the English-language newspapers, and many of the Afrikaans-speaking professors of Stellenbosch University, spoke out even though they knew that their protests were in vain. Last week rose the wrath of two other groups-the white women and the natives...
Johannes Gerhardus Strydom (pronounced Straydom), 61, the new Prime Minister of South Africa, is a descendant of those Dutch settlers who 115 years ago fought their way across Zululand to the fertile Transvaal. Young Strydom grew up during the Boer War, and studied at the University of Stellenbosch, cradle of thwarted Boer aspirations. After taking his law degree at the University of Pretoria, he returned to his father's farm, where he raised ostriches. He improved a natural gift for histrionics by speech-making in front of mirrors. In 1929 he was elected to Parliament for the backveld district...
...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...