Word: bantus
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...Radcliffe's seventh annual Rama Mehta Lecture, University of Cape Town researcher and political activist Mamphela Aletta Ramphele said space constraints have created a system that gives adult male Bantus unequal control over other Blacks living in work hostels...
...government gives beds to the male Bantus, who then bring their families to live with them...
Enduring Feudalism. Even without guerrilla warfare in Eritrea, Haile Selassie's ancient empire is haunted by grave troubles. Its 25 million people, a fusion of Semites, Hamites, Nilotics and Bantus, have an average per capita income of $63 per year (one of the lowest in the world). Only 7% can read. Nine out of every ten Ethiopians are subsistence farmers, and 60% of these are tenants on feudal estates. Cities are haunted by bands of beggars and thieves...
Durban was divided into sections for whites, Indians, coloreds, and Bantus (Negroes), and Dr. Salber and her husband, also a doctor, were working in the Bantu township. Though facilities were good and the work "terribly exciting," apartheid raised moral problems. Just outside the township was a settlement of 6000 Bantu men on contract labor, brought in from all around the country. Mothers complained to Dr. Salber that their daughters were being threatened, and malnutrition was a problem among the huge colony of men. Yet to complain to the government from a medical and humanitarian point of view inevitably...
...evidence that the mystery of such anthropological anomalies may never be solved, Flame picks Africa's Auen nomads, caught in the fierce Kalahari desert between the Boers of South Africa and the northerly Bantus. When game is scarce, Gaisseau relates, they often spare their young the agony of starvation by smothering them in shallow, sandy graves. They are among the most stubbornly primitive people on earth, and their harsh mercy has already marked them for extinction: at the time of filming, only 28 members of the tribe were living...