Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...African ex-servicemen, desperate for somewhere to live, had set up a great semi-permanent camp on the veld close to the city. Pathetically they called it Tobruk, after the place that had seen a great Allied defeat and victory. Scott joined them. But Scott found that life is not a simple fight of good against evil, white against black. The encampment of underprivileged families was run by vicious criminals of their own race. When he tried to hinder them, they burned down the chapel made of sacking that he served. When their leaders left with the communal funds...
...most influential Negro in South Africa, Dr. John S. Moroka, had warned Prime Minister Malan that the Union's 8,000,000 Negroes would see "the end of black slavery" on April 6, South Africa's tercentenary. The African National Congress, which Moroka heads, would start a civil disobedience campaign on that...
...came, a steady stream of well-armed cops, backed by armored cars, moved into the teeming native slums of South Africa's main cities. Army reinforcements stood ready at strategic points. But no trouble came. In Johannesburg's "Freedom Square," a dilapidated vacant lot in the Indian-African slum of Fordsburg, only 4,000 blacks showed up, instead of the 100,000 predicted. In & out among them flitted white Communist agitators, jangling collection boxes and spouting pat phrases about "U.S. imperialism in Asia." Sturdy Dr. Moroka (who is not a Communist) climbed up on a platform built...
...spoke before the Trusteeship Committee of the United Nations in New York on behalf of three obscure African tribes. They were peoples of no strategic importance; they had been under the protection of the League of Nations, and were protesting against their arbitrary incorporation into the Union of South Africa. The great powers were sympathetic but embarrassed. He went again in 1950, and an old intestinal disease made him lobby from his bed. He spoke again in 1951 and 1952 in Paris. The committee invited representatives of the three tribes, but the government of South Africa refused to let them...
...said that Rhodes, which has separate campuses for native and white students. Is typical of South African education. in that equal but separate facilities are provided...