Word: afrikaanse
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It was a symbolic award. On every mile of their ten-week trip, the visitors had made friends for themselves and their Empire. Last week, they were back on board the Vanguard, steaming home to Britain. "U het ons U harte gegee" (You have given us your hearts), the Queen...
Later in the day Queen Elizabeth scored a personal triumph when she sampled a Paarl housewife's Dutch milk tart. "Ah," said the Queen in Afrikaans, "dis bale goed" (this is very good).
For their last day in Cape Town the King & Queen donned their best finery (an admiral's uniform with the blue ribbon of the Garter for him; a gown of pale crepe and Queen Mary's borrowed diamond tiara for her), to preside at the opening of South...
In London the family had been sedulously boning up on South African history, politics, economics and the Afrikaans language (they could all now say a cheery "How do you do?"-Hoe gaan dit?-to their hosts) while Britain's leading designers, Hartnell, Molyneux and Thaarup, labored feverishly on trousseaux...
South African radio, currently consisting of eleven English-language stations and eleven Afrikaans, is state-owned, but some time next fall it will start broadcasting commercials. The purpose: 1) to give business a hand with a new advertising medium; 2) to get more money for better radio programs. To help...