Apartheid PM resists UN pressure

“Malan Warns The World,” read the headline above a story on South African apartheid.

Prime Minister Daniel François Malan served notice that his government, which implemented the racist system of apartheid, would not bow to world opinion: “Warning the United Nations and the British Commonwealth to keep out of African affairs, he told a massing of supporters: ‘The road we want to follow is being obstructed by the courts.

“‘The powers drawn up against us are very considerable, and the government must consider what it has to do in the circumstances.’”

The era of apartheid was finally brought to an end in 1994 when, four years after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela swept to power as South Africa’s first black president.