Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...southern African Common Market, composed of the protectorates, Rhodesia, Portuguese Mozambique and Angola, and perhaps even black-ruled Malawi, where Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda has little choice but to be nice to the white lands that surround him. Dominating such a market, of course, would be South Africa...
Verwoerd is one of the ablest white leaders that Africa has ever produced. He has a photographic memory, an analytical mind and an endless capacity for work. He is a brilliant diplomat and an inventive politician. He is the inspired defender of the Afrikaner faith, the unquestioned captain of the Afrikaner laager. But his fortress is vulnerable and his enemy within. So taut are the nerves of South Africa's blacks that twice in recent months crashes of African commuter trains have set the passengers off in bloody rioting against their white engineers. Outside his confident country, there...
...bounce off the sturdy Afrikaners, just as the spears and arrows of the Zulu warriors used to bounce off their forefathers' laagers, the ring of covered wagons drawn up tightly in defense. "Every time someone stands up in the United Nations and points an accusing finger at South Africa," says a South African journalist, "a few thousand more whites move over to Verwoerd's side...
Gold & Ostriches. South Africa is a land of bright sun and haunting beauty. Fine wine grapes grow in the protected valleys in the southwest, while elephant, rhino and springbok range the high savanna of Kruger National Park in the northeast. Ostrich farms dot the harsh, baked landscape beneath the kopjes (flat-topped hills) of the Great Karroo, where two centuries ago Dutch trekboers lived in small nomadic communi ties. South of the Kalahari Desert is the high veld, a great, green, grassy plateau where cattle and sheep graze in endless herds. On the Indian Ocean's shore...
...Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters) and the Orange Free State turn out 73% of the world's supply. Not far away, in the middle of the great Vaal River coal fields, the government-owned SASOL plant turns coal into oil, the only major product in which South Africa is not self-sufficient; 18 companies are now exploring for oil in Zululand and the Karroo...