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back TO power last week for five
more years with an increased
parliamentary majority,
Malan's Nationalist Party cap
tured five seats in the l59 MEM
Der lower chamber from the Oppo-
sitlon Unified Party. and had not
lost a single seat of It's own.
The results of the South Afr-.
can election signaled a dangerous
era ahead in racial relations for
this member Of the British Com
monwealth. With MaIan capturing
- seats in the House of Assem-
bly,. lower house OF Parliament, as
compared with the Opposition's
total Of IS, this definitely estab-
fishes Malan as supreme ruler,
Won With Less Votes
The Nationalist won with a
minority vote. as in 1913, They
were able To do this because South
Africa is so divided by districts
that a rural vote has more weight
than a city vote. lOur state Of
Georgia has similar divisions To
give rural voters advantage
With the count completed for
I49 of the 159 seats. the Nation
alsts had $50, 1000 popular votes
to $4,000 for the opposition. This
gave the Nationalists about ~
per cent Of the total counted and
the opposition about So percent.
Proceeded by an ugly national
election campaign where lusty
citizens (whitel used eggs, toma-
toes, rocks. clubs, and bicycle
chains as weapons in debates,
both parties polled bigger aggre-
bate votes than ever before The
atmosphere during the heavy bal
loting was tense. Armed police
stood by all polls for this was the
white mans election
The city districts. where the
United Party led by J. G. N.
Strauss. had its main strength.
were counted first and showed a
heavy early vote against Malan.
It's maiorities SCARED III many
safe electoral divisions and dented
the Nationalist matorities in races
for some seats.
But MalRn's grip on south
Africa's backwOOds voters SEEMED
10 assure him Of u comfortable re-
turn 60 power.
The prime ministers party
stood on it's severe policy Of alb.
soIute racial segregation. apart
heidi as opposed to softer meth
DDS for enforcing white suprem-
acy favored by the United Party
Both parties pledged themselves
to uphold the dominant position
Of the $500. 900 whites, who are
outnumbered here four to one. by
the Africans.
The Nationalist, with a GER
tain five years OF rule coming up
have declared that their first ain,
Is to rush the developing non
white resistance To segregation
laws and to scrap the right Of the
independent judiciary TO pass up.
on laws enacted by Parliament.
To that end. MAlan's govern.
ment has received power TO de-
clare emergencies. suspend most
laws. and Jail or whip persons who
object 10 existing Of future fIi'
ture laws II has also indicated
that u would scrap traditional
democratic rights II necessary q
preserve the supremacy Of South
Africa'E whites over 1000. 900 Ne
groes. Indians and mulattoes
Te long term goal Of the all
Boer Dutch-descended cabinet
cabinet. however, is republic
free Of the British crown Tn
Nalan victory deepened the tradi
tinnaI rift between Britnn ans
Boer. between the industrial
towns and their rural districts
MAlan. ~. - the No. whit
man in the black continent and h.
- ~ conscious Of his race that N
does not even have direct contac
with the non Europeans" in hi
country
and this IL South Afrtc'
Under the white supremscis
Prime Minister
The black man in South Africi
has not shared fully in the bcne
fits 81 civilization under the guar
siianship ~ the white man ski
led work t. almost exclusively IN,
province Of the white Only In IN
Ias, decad~. with the dsveloprnen
~ secondary or consumer good
Industries have natives begun q
crowd into son1s Of the serli-sbil
led jobs
On 1859 th~ average lscouss a
the NATIVE MAS Aboat sss . usSatf
tn husband hrsuKht h~Ssr rios
% ST % this ard bis wife mad
up tn rv~t thr"aEh washing an
sth~r iSha
The infant mortality "a;
among whites - ss7 per 100
1--we births. The rate among Afr1
cans ts about sss per 1000 hv
hsrths
The death rate for whites frNr
fuh~rcalosss m 1873 acr0rdinR /,