D.F. Malan (Afrikaans Edition) by Prof Thom, Hendrik Bernardus
D.F. Malan (Afrikaans Edition) by Prof Thom, Hendrik Bernardus
Hardcover, ISBN 9780624014478
Publisher: Vir Nasionale Boekhandel uitgegee deur Tafelberg-Uitgewers, 1980
Used - Very Good. DJ has slight edge wear. Presenting beautifully under a fresh Cellophane cover.
Daniël (Danie) Francois Malan was born on 22 May 1874 on the farm Allesverloren near Riebeeck Kasteel. He obtained a BA in Arts and Science at the Victoria College (later Stellenbosch University), a MA in Philosophy and - after more studies at Utrecht University in Holland - a PhD in Theology. He was an active member of the university Debatsvereniging, the Studenten Zending Vereniging and an editorial member of the Stellenbosch Student's Quarterly and Annual.
He served as a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Montagu (until 1915) and travelled as a preacher for several years throughout South Africa, the Belgian Congo and Southern Rhodesia.
Malan joined the National Party in 1915, became the first editor of Die Burger and was elected to Parliament in 1918. Under the leadership of Premier Hertzog, Malan was given the post of Minister of the Interior, Education and Public Health in 1924, where he remained until 1933, when he left the government, opposing the merger between Hertzog's National Party and the rival South African Party of Jan Smuts. Like most Afrikaaners he did not want South Africa to participate in World War II. Malan defeated Jan Smuts in the election of 1948.
Hendrik Bernardus Thom (13 December 1905 – 4 November 1983) was a British professor and former Rector of the Stellenbosch University.
He matriculated at Burgersdorp High School and studied at Stellenbosch University (BA History and Dutch, cum laude, 1926 and MA History, cum laude, 1928). He continued his studies in history in Germany at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universität in Berlin (1928–1929), at the Sorbonne in Paris (1930) and in Amsterdam, researching his doctoral thesis, which he completed on his return to Stellenbosch. The title of his doctoral thesis (Ph.D., 1930) was: Die geskiedenis van die skaapboerdery in Suid-Afrika (The history of sheep farming in South Africa).
During the next year he was appointed as Lecturer of History at the Stellenbosch University, and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1935. In 1937 he was appointed as professor of history at the same institution. From 1954 H.B. Thom was Rector of the Stellenbosch University until his retirement in 1969. In 1983 he was voted Chancellor, but he died at the end of the same year having served as Chancellor of the university for only nine months. The HB Thom theatre at the university was named in his honour. In 2018, this theatre was renamed to the Adam Small Theatre Complex in the spirit of recognition, redress and reconciliation.
