Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seek out their own humble jobs. Last week Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's regime prepared to erase even that right. Gaveled through Parliament was an amendment to the Bantu Laws designed to give the government total control over the employment, place of residence and movements of every African worker...
Aliens at Home. Under the bill, natives stand to be converted into virtual aliens outside their tribal reservations and shuttled between "white areas" like a mobile labor pool. An expanded network of government labor bureaus and "aid centers" is to decide where all 7,000,000 African laborers will work, and at what tasks. If an African doesn't take a job offered him, he will be immediately "endorsed out"-the term under which the regime banishes undesirable natives back to their villages...
...enjoyed permanent legal residence there and could not normally be "endorsed out." The new bill abolishes that right, and a man who has spent his life as a clerk in a Cape Town chemist's shop could end up swinging a pick in a Transvaal gold mine. Moreover, African wives and children may follow their breadwinner only if the government finds it expedient, and many native men will be forced to live alone...
Revolution Unlikely. Plucky Helen Suzman, sole parliamentary voice of South Africa's small, anti-apartheid Progressive Party, accurately called it "slave labor." Said she: "The government imagines the African as a disembodied pair of black hands to work for the whites...
...years, Don Carlos plunged the riches he gets from Mexican silver mines, South African diamonds and Spanish real estate into the empty 89-room palazzo. For an estimated $3,000,000, he created a magnificent clutter. Oriental porcelains and blue Sevres china, Roman drinking cups and medieval armory filled every corner. Gobelin tapestries, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, caparisoned the walls. His personal squadron of ten gondoliers was liveried in silk and velvet costumes copied from Tiepolo and other old masters. In 1951, Don Carlos, decked out in a curly peruke and balanced atop 16-in.-platform shoes that...