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Afrikaners Gideon Blignaut, 24 and Antonie Botha, 22, were at work in Johannesburg's Pass Office. When Robert Chanke, an elderly Negro from upcountry Transvaal, shuffled into their room seeking a work permit, the white clerks tried to make him admit illegal entry from Rhodesia. Chanke insisted that he lived in a Transvaal kraal, had a right to work in Johannesburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport for Clerks | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...Blignaut and Botha ushered Chanke into another room, slipped a noose around his neck, threw the rope end 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport for Clerks | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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