Word: bantu
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Chin in Palm. On the farms of the Transvaal, bearded Afrikaner patriarchs, who still rule their Bantu field hands with a Bible in one hand and a rawhide sjambok whip in the other, were talking mostly of wool and cattle prices-and of their trip to Pretoria last...
...unknown lands beyond the Drakensberg Mountains. They called themselves voortrekkers, and their journey was long and perilous. To cross the mountain passes, they often had to dismantle the wagons and carry them piece by piece. And in escaping from the British, they ran into a new enemy: the Bantu...
Unlike the Hottentots and Bushmen, the Bantu were a powerful, well-organized society, experienced in the art of warfare. But the whites broke the back of their resistance at the battle of Blood River, and went on to establish their farms in the high veld...
Even before registration was completed, the regime started building a chain of race laws with resounding names. There were, for example, the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, the Immorality Amendment Act, the Separate Representation of Voters Act, the Bantu Authorities Act, the Group Areas Acts, the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, the Native Labor Act, the Suppression of Communism Act, the Church Clause, the Twelve-Day Detention Clause, the 90-Day Detention Clause, and the 180-Day Detention Clause...
Reinforcements Next Time. One of Kennedy's few outspoken critics was Blaar Coetzee, Deputy Minister of Bantu [Negro] Administration, who called the Senator a "little snip," and vowed that South Africa would not be intimidated by the U.S. or Great Britain. The pro-government Afrikaans press was also antagonistic, but the English-language papers were enthusiastic. "Kennedy's visit," gushed the opposition Rand Daily Mail, "was the best thing that has happened to South Africa for years."* Kennedy even got on well with the leaders of the South African Foundation, a business-sponsored promotional organization. After a private...