Word: boer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Africa of today?General Smuts, the enigmatic statesman and dictator; the Prince of Wales who came to Africa and smiled less and danced more than people expected; leaders in the Union political movements. She analyzes the various currents of commerce, government, economics. The effects of the Boer War she finds revealed in the remark of a young British-South African who refers to-"the place we South Africans licked the English...
Most of all, the people are important to her. The Boer, the Briton, the Jew, the Asiatic, the half-caste?with each she deals separately because each is in himself an entity. South Africa, she seems to say, is a melting pot that lacks a fire. Finally she considers the Kaffirs. These, a brown Northern people who conquered the native blacks at the time of the Dutch Discovery in the 17th Century, are now the cheap labor class. They are the burden which the white man has been too weak to carry but not too weak to destroy...
...from that day, Rodney ("Gypsy") Smith has traveled the globe with his heart in his mouth, preaching salvation, singing "Where He leads me I will follow," converting thousands. In South Africa after the Boer War, Negroes and white men quivered and rose in common prayer before Gypsy Smith. In Chicago in 1889 he sought to oust the devil from the red-light district with a blaring-singing-praying midnight parade. Next day, a hundred tramps and a few daughters of joy came to his co-workers to be cleansed, Gypsy Smith having gone on to the next town. During...
Tenacious, Dutch-descended South Africans remember that scarce a quarter century has passed since the Boer Republic of their fathers was extinguished by Queen Victoria's armies. Moreover, the Dominion of South Africa is but 16 years old. To many a South African Boer* the possibility of disunion from the British Empire and a return to Republicanism seems an ideal not hopelessly remote from attainment. Therefore when General James B. M. Hertzog, Dutch-descended Premier of South Africa, returned last week from the Imperial Conference at London (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) all Cape Town awaited eagerly his first...
...Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, announced sepulchrally last week that the British Coal Strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) has cost more than the Boer...