Burger's Daughter is a novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer

(pictured). Set in the mid-1970s, it details a group of white anti-

apartheid activists seeking to overthrow the South African government.

It follows the life of Rosa Burger as she comes to terms with her

father's legacy as an activist in the South African Communist Party.

Gordimer was involved in South African politics and knew Bram Fischer,

Nelson Mandela's treason trial defence lawyer. She modelled the novel's

Burger family on Fischer's family and described Burger's Daughter as an

homage to Fischer. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom

in 1979. It was banned in South Africa a month after its publication,

and its import and sale were prohibited by the South African

Publications Control Board. Three months later, the Publications Appeal

Board overturned the ban and restrictions were lifted. The novel was

generally well received by critics and won the Central News Agency

Literary Award in 1980.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1789:

The Judiciary Act of 1789 was signed into law, establishing the

U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court justices

at six.

1903:

Alfred Deakin became the second Australian prime minister,

succeeding Edmund Barton, who left office to become a founding justice

of the High Court of Australia.

1950:

The "Great Smoke Pall", generated by the Chinchaga fire, the

largest recorded fire in North American history, was first recorded in

present-day Nunavut and may eventually have circled the entire globe.

1975:

Dougal Haston and Doug Scott of the Southwest Face expedition

became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by

ascending one of its faces.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

juanitaite:

(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing

arsenic, bismuth, calcium, copper, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial

Department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to

particular cases must, of necessity, expound and interpret that rule. If

two laws conflict with each other, the Courts must decide on the

operation of each. So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution,

if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular case, so that

the Court must either decide that case conformably to the law,

disregarding the Constitution, or conformably to the Constitution,

disregarding the law, the Court must determine which of these

conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of

judicial duty. If, then, the Courts are to regard the Constitution, and

the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the Legislature, the

Constitution, and not such ordinary act, must govern the case to which

they both apply.  

--John Marshall

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