Word: afrikaanse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With U.S. businessmen buying and selling in increasingly remote parts of the world, Berlitz now teaches 46 living languages from Afrikaans to Urdu. President Strumpen-Darrie (who gets by in half a dozen languages) and 48-year-old Vice President Charles Berlitz (15 languages fluently, another 15 passably) insist that...
Who Is a White? Those who remain legally Colored are caught tragically between the two big layers of South Africa's population. They look with disdain on the blacks and are rejected by the whites. Though they share a common culture and tongue with the white man (90% of...
Girls, Seldom. In all of this, Buchan is to present-day international-chase writers what Henry Ford was to the mass-produced automobile. Everything he started is still going strong, from the cross-country chase in a purring Bentley to the use of arcane skills (like the ability to get...
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, who cannot tolerate criticism, has long been troubled by the English press, which has a daily circulation of 685,000 v. 175,000 for the Afrikaans press. Unlike the Afrikaans press, the English-language dailies boldly criticize the government, deplore apartheid, expose hypocrisy. The Johannesburg Sunday...
The chief risk he sees in South African investments stems from the government's apartheid policy. Once he made statements indicating that the racial problem in South Africa was no more serious than in the South. But since the Sharpeville riots a year ago, he has increased his opposition...