Word: african
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Femininity, African style, where a woman had the last word. See FOREIGN NEWS...
From British-governed Basutoland and Bechuanaland, both moving gradually toward independence, come thousands of workers each year, heading for South Africa's gold mines and carrying, along with their cardboard suitcases, dangerous new ideas about African rights. To the approving cries of "Hoor! Hoor!" (Hear! Hear!), Verwoerd warned that something must be done, and that multiracial political development was no answer...
...more than the logical last step in a policy that began some 300 years ago, when Dutch East India Co. colonists settled on the Cape of Good Hope and there planted an almond hedge to keep blacks and whites apart. The recent turmoil all over Africa has made South African whites increasingly anxious to raise a thick hedge that would prove impenetrable to the Union's blacks...
British Author Smith, who died early this year, deals with the Little Karoo, an isolated South African plateau peopled by pious, hardfisted Boer farmers who are as trapped by their environment and culture as any of Author Undset's bedeviled Norwegians. For them, too, "man is distant, but God is near." In The Miller, a baffled man expresses his outrage at the approach of death by browbeating his timid wife, who runs "to serve him with quick, fluttering movements like those of a frightened hen"; in The Sinner, a lifetime of hard work and small returns explodes in passion...
...restrictions placed on Albert Luthuli, president general of the African National Congress, are the latest in a series of extreme actions by the South African government. Luthuli, who has spent time in jail for various nationalistic activities, was banned from attending any meetings or gatherings and barred from travel outside his home province. Legally, this move seems inexcusable, since the action amounts to limiting freedom on mere suspicion of intention to advocate the overthrow of the government. However, under South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act and Riotous Assemblies Act, all things are possible. (Luthuli was scheduled...