Word: bantu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black man's paper Inkundhla ya Bantu warned: "The old generation of Africans who believed in resolutions, deputations, petitions and peaceful conciliations is fast dying out . . . There is growing among . . . African youth a spirit of almost uncontrollable anti-whiteism...
...royal family arrived just as the first showers in four months began to fall. "The King is the bringer of rain!" shouted 9,000 grateful Bantus massed in the town square. Dusky women, their faces painted white and yellow for the occasion, waved corncob pipes in lusty greeting; Bantu men, led by dapper Chief Vukile (in a smart brown suit and fedora) and his counselors (one in a gilded top hat, military greatcoat and pajama pants), raised cheers for "Sozizwe"(the Father of All Nations) and prepared to slaughter eight oxen in his honor. "Bring on your enemies," yelled hundreds...
...neighboring Drakensberg thousands of Bantu, against the advice of their doctors, climbed 12,000 feet to beseech the Christian God for rain. It rained-a little. Then, on Smuts's day of prayer the white folk prayed in their churches. Almost at once, the rains came. They have been coming ever since...
...over a beam. Then they ordered the sweating native to stand on a chair and jump. Chanke collapsed, unconscious. The noise brought other clerks, arrest for the sportsmen. Sentence: $100 fines for Blignaut and Botha. Newpapers suggested that the Government should remove such Afrikaners from authority over the Bantu...
...many a suburban Johannesburger twitched and turned in his last few minutes of troubled sleep, awoke alarmed at the unmistakable rhythm of hoarse-voiced jungle chanting. Early risers discovered the source: 20,000 black men, women & children, packed gutter to gutter on the Pretoria road, marching to wild, weird Bantu songs and war cries...