"The land is ours again," screamed Nationalist students at Pretoria and Stellenbosch universities. "We're boss now," crowed three young toughs in Prime Minister Daniel Malan's own Piquetberg; they stormed into Grocer Abe Ginsberg's Main Street store and helped themselves to cheese. "In future we'll take what we want without paying." In rural Burghersdorp a pro-Malan voter had got so excited over the election returns on his radio that he ran out firing his rifle in the air, accidentally shot down his antenna. A Smuts supporter kicked his radio to smithereens and had...
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