Synopsis: This is a reportage style article that outlines the election results as well as the few possibilities for any passive resistance.

AFTER MALAN FORMS GOVERNMENT

Johannesburg, South Africa – South Africa can now expect its first post election headache within a month and perhaps sooner. 

Non-white leaders of the passive resistance campaign which resulted in the jailing of more than 8000 of the Bantu and Indian population and a number of whites told me today that the campaign was certain to be renewed in force probably shortly after Dr. Daniel Malan has formed his new government. This is expected within a week. 

94 Seats for Malan

Final returns from Wednesday's general election showed that the stern and old ex-preacher's Nationalist forces won 94 of Parliament's 159 seats, giving him an over-all majority of 30. 

The opposition United Party captured 57 seats and its allied Labor Party, four. Three already-chosen representatives of 50,000 Cape coloureds (mulatoes) also usually vote with the opposition. 

The non-white leaders emphasized that the disobedience tactics would be non-violent as before, taking the form mainly of entering areas marked non-Europeans. None of the resistance leaders would speak officially for publication but one told me Malan's impressive victory will mean overtime for the police and a crowding of jail facilities as never before. 

Meanwhile, there is a great feeling of anti-climax here and an ominous silence from the 10 million non-whites. 

There has not been a single incident to date to indicate the general depression among non-whites. Thursday I visited one of the locations and talked to several native workers. Their response to Malan's victory is a fatalistic shrug. 

Few expected any changes in their existence if the United Party's J.G. N. Strauss had been elected. 

Some Surpised

The only real surprise at the results comes from the English-Speaking United Party supporters and that is explained mainly because the English-language newspapers slanted election news and played down the Nationalists' strength not only in the country but in the urban areas where Malan found a surprising number of votes. 

Characteristically the Rand Daily Mail announced Malan's obvious win under the heading, "Election Takes Tense Turn." 

Few English-speaking here are as much disturbed by the continuation and extentsion of oppressive "apartheid" laws as they are by the fact that South Africa is now smugly in the hands of the Afrikaans-speaking politicians. 

Only 38 of new members of parliament are English-speaking and so are 28 of the United Party members. 

Meanwhile at Pretoria, Malan's victory was marked by a parade of hundreds of university students waving republican flags and singing Boer marking songs. 

Most of the flags borne by the students during the victory celebration were those of the old 19th century South African republic which together with the  Orange Free State republic fought agains British forces in the Boer War. Other flags and banners bore symbols of Boer nationalism.