Word: bantu
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...Better known outside Africa as the "Watutsi." the tall, legendary warriors of King Solomon's Mines. The Hutu (or Bahutu), a short-statured Bantu tribe, are the traditional peasants...
...actual coronation occurred at the moment when South Africa's Minister of Bantu Administration, Michiel Botha, presented letters of appointment to Prince Zwelithini, whose father, Chief Cyprian, died 18 months ago. Standing stiffly in a plain black suit with a leopard-skin sash draped incongruously across it, the Prince wept with emotion. Then the crowd roared a traditional tribute: "Bay-ete wenawendhlovu [Hail, noble elephant]," and Zwelithini took his place on a throne of scented tamboetie wood with arm rests carved in the shape of lions...
...under the strict control of the Ministry of National Education. There will be separate channels for South Africa's two major racial groups. One channel will carry only "white" programs and will be aimed at whites, Asians and "Coloreds" of mixed blood. The other channel will be TV-Bantu, and will carry programs intended for black viewers. Even in technical terms, black and white will never meet on TV-all transmission will be in color...
...Richard Suzman '64, a Social Studies tutor originally from South Africa, commented, "It's a rather naive or dishonest report if it doesn't talk about the Bantu education which is in fact indoctrination and rejected by blacks in South Africa...
...theory, McCracken points to such herding cultures as the Bahima of Uganda, among whom lactase levels remain high throughout life, as they do in most civilized countries today where dairying is practiced and milk intolerance uncommon. Other herders (such as the neighboring Baganda and most of the Bantu in Africa), who keep cattle but do not drink the milk, have low lactase levels after childhood and a high incidence of intolerance to milk. In other parts of the world, the same pattern exists. More than 85% of Thai children over the age of five, for example, cannot tolerate milk...