Word: bechuanaland
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...dream thus analyzed in black and white raised more questions than even the commission could answer. Essential to the scheme was the incorporation in South Africa of the three enclaves formed by the British protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland, a fate that the natives of those protectorates strongly resist. To clear the black areas, thousands of white farmers would have to be moved from their farms and settled in white areas. If the black men still preferred Johannesburg to the bush, they could be forced into the national homes only with troops-an action that might well start...
According to Correspondent Alex Campbell, a South African Bushman will eat anything from a mouse to an elephant. In the Okovanggo swamps of Bechuanaland in 1951, he sampled a Bushman meal: "They produced an elephant foot, spiced with cloves, nutmeg, salt and pepper, wrapped in wet clay and baked for five hours in a scooped-out anthill. The result was a pleasant, jellylike dish which tasted like baked oyster. While waiting for it to bake we had an hors d'oeuvre which tasted like popcorn-fried flying ants and wild honey...
Born. To Seretse Khama, 31, exiled chief-designate of the Bamangwato in Britain's African protectorate of Bechuanaland, and blonde Ruth Williams Khama 29: their second child, first son; in Chipstead, England. Name: Seretse...
...occasion, with headdresses of beads or feathers, clanking bracelets and earrings, and costume jewelry made of bones, shells, bells, animal horns and beer-bottle tops. Officially constituting the African Dingaka Association, they were the witch doctors from the Union of South Africa and their cousins from Rhodesia, Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland...
...Hook, brute symbol of ferocity and military leadership, stands at one extreme of Men at Arms. At the other is Captain Apthorpe, who stands for all that is most ridiculous, most pompous, most bumbling and yet most sympathetic in human nature. He has spent most of his life in Bechuanaland, and he joins the Halberdiers with a "vast accumulation of ant-proof boxes, waterproof bundles, strangely shaped, heavily initialed tin trunks and leather cases." As an antiseptic precaution he has his "Thunder Box"-a portable chemical toilet built of oak and brass...