APARTHEID POLICY HELPED BY DR. MALAN’S VICTORY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27434, 21 August 1954, Page 7

APARTHEID POLICY HELPED BY DR. MALAN’S VICTORY

(Rec. 9 p.m.) , JOHANNESBURG, August 20. Dr. Malan’s Nationalists ousted the United Party from control of the Cape Provincial Council; were also returned to power in the Transvaal; and swept the United Party out of the Orange Free State, in yesterday’s “little General Election” of which the final results were learned tonight.

This decisive Nationalist victory in Transvaal Provincial Council gave the the provincial polls left the United Nationalists 45 and the United Party Party* dominating only in the Natal 23. province, its traditional stronghold. The Nationalists’ Cape Province The elections were fought by the tory won them a majority there for the Nationalists primarily on their colour first time in 27 years. bar. policies, and observers believe Dr. Their clean sweep in the Orange Malan will regard the election verdict Free State made South African politias a renewed approval of his contro- cal history. 'lt is the first time the versial apartheid programme. provincial council has been made up He is likely to acclaim it as a man- of representatives of only one party. date for further measures “to make the The state of the parties in the Cape white man safe in South Africa.” • Province is Nationalists 30, United The final figures for 68 Seats in the Party 24.

In the Orange Free State the Nationalists won all 25 seats. Two special representatives for natives in the Cape Province will be elected separately later. Compared with the 1949 provincial elections the Nationalists gained 10 seats in three polling provinces, all at the expense of the United Party. The United Party gained four—three from the Labour Party, and one from the Independents.