Malan

[mah-lahn]

noun

Daniel Fran·çois

[frahn-swah] /frɑnˈswɑ/, 1874–1959, South African editor and political leader: prime minister 1948–54.

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Contemporary Examples of malan

By Malan, and the National Party, and Verwoerd, and Botha, and all the people who locked him up for nearly 30 years.
The Meaning of Mandela
Joshua DuBois
June 30, 2013
Yet at the time Malan wrote his early essays, such charges were incendiary in South Africa.
‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’: Rian Malan’s South Africa Reviewed
Katie Baker
November 28, 2012

Historical Examples of malan

Lem Marks talked for some minutes, and once Malan pointed with the axe.
Dwellers in the Hills
Melville Davisson Post
Malan was seized by the collar and flung violently backward.
Dwellers in the Hills
Melville Davisson Post
Woodford thrust the lantern into their faces and began to kick Malan.
Dwellers in the Hills
Melville Davisson Post
Marks and Peppers and the club-footed Malan were all moving somewhere in our front.
Dwellers in the Hills
Melville Davisson Post
Elder Malan, who was unknown to the parties, said, perhaps I was an angel.
Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow
Eliza R. Snow Smith

British Dictionary definitions for malan

Malan

noun

Daniel F (rançois). 1874–1959, South African statesman; prime minister (1948–54). He passed legislation to introduce apartheid

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