Word: afrikaanse
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Back in Kimberley, the bishop said that he felt "ashamed to be associated by accident of race with those responsible for this disregard for humanity." He thereupon organized a relief drive to which whites and half-castes contributed. Government officials declared that the Bantus had "forfeited the right to sympathy...
Gandar himself was not permitted to take the stand. He may get the chance sometime, for the government may well be building a case against the Mail itself under the Prisons Act. In the past two months, the newspaper's office has been raided four times, and security police...
Meanwhile Seretse was working to waken Bechuanaland politically. He formed the multiracial Bechuanaland Democratic Party, opposing Black Nationalist Phillip Matante ("the Lion of Bechuanaland") and Peking-oriented Motsamai Mpho. At one political rally, a back-country tribesman who could not pronounce the word democratic referred to the party as Domkrag...
South Africa's government gets such criticism in the entire English-language press, but nowhere with more unremitting vehemence than in Gandar's Mail. Why Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd permits it is one of the unexplained mysteries of an otherwise intolerant land. He has the power to silence...
The second largest group of students comes from Southwest Africa and is largely Afrikaans-speaking. To get to Tanganyika, these students journeyed over three thousand miles, crossing the Kalahari desert into Bechuanaland and the Zambezi River into Northern Rhodesia. This is the same "freedom route" that is followed by most...