Background
Daniel Malan was born in Riebeek-Wes in the Cape Colony on May 22, 1874.
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Daniel Malan was born in Riebeek-Wes in the Cape Colony on May 22, 1874.
Daniel Malan studied for the ministry of the Dutch Reformed Church at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, and from 1901 to 1904 he attended the University of Utrecht.
Daniel Malan became leader of the Cape nationalists and was appointed to Hertzog's first Cabinet in 1924.
The depression forced Hertzog and Jan Christiaan Smuts into a coalition in 1933.
He broke with Hertzog and formed a "purified" National party.
In World War II Malan opposed South Africa's participation.
Its recommendations were published as a pamphlet in which apartheid was formally stated to be the party's policy.
Its main points included the preservation of white supremacy, separation of the races, and retribalization of the Africans.
Itwas this policy which brought the National party to power in May 1948.
African reactions to Malan's rule were without precedent in the history of South Africa.
Chief Albert Luthuli, a known moderate who was later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy of nonviolence, started speaking publicly of "new methods of struggle. "
The militants demanded "direct action. "
Laws were passed disenfranchising the Africans and tightening segregation in the ownership of land.
In 1952 the Africans launched a campaign for the defiance of unjust laws, and more than 8, 000 people went to jail.
Luthuli was deposed for his support of the campaign. Crises erupted in the colored, Indian, and white communities.
India severed diplomatic relations with South Africa in 1954.
Malan opposed what he regarded as the haste with which the colonial powers were freeing Africa.
When Kwame Nkrumah took his seat in the Council of Ministers, Malan protested that this would have unfortunate consequences for the British Commonwealth.
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At various times he belonged to different parties: National Party (1914-1935), (1948-59)
Purified National Party (1935-1939), Herenigde Nasionale Party (1940-1948)
Afrikaanse Taal- en Kultuurvereniging
Daniel Malan married Maria.