Word: boer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country with about as many English-speaking people as North Carolina, South Africa exports a high quota of readable novels. The latest on this fall's list is Daphne Rooke's Ratoons. Novelist Rooke (Mittee) takes in the conflict of Zulu against Hindu, Englishman against Boer on a turn-of-the-century sugar plantation, but the drama of racial tensions serves mainly as a backdrop for a melodrama of personal relationships...
Fond of her gentle mother, fearful of her bluff, cruel father, Helen Angus is romping through her teens with artless innocence when Ratoons begins. Then the hothouse climate brings her emotions to quick bloom; she falls in love with a half-Boer boy named Chris and soon is pregnant. Before she can nerve herself to tell anyone, Chris departs for the Boer War, and Helen's mother, herself pregnant, dies while giving birth to a puny boy. When the child dies, Helen's father substitutes Helen's illegitimate baby for his own Nicky...
...eight he turned out a 31 -page history of the Boer War roundly criticizing theBritish...
...Rhodesia's Prime Minister, he badgered London for a federation of the three colonies. Northern Rhodesia, rich in copper, needed Southern Rhodesia's coal; both colonies needed Nyasaland's ample supply of African labor. "A black front is advancing from the Gold Coast, a white front [Boer South Africa] is moving from the south," he explained. He believed that the federation would save Central Africa from becoming "the clashing point of those two fronts...
...great deal but hardly described at all, he gives in to his lust and goes after the girl Stephanie. By the scheming of a subordinate on the police force, he is caught, tried, and sent to jail (under South Africa's Immorality Act). His father, a stern old Boer scratches his name out of the family Bible and quietly dies. His wife leaves him. The whole family is ostracized by the community. "And I grieve for him," writes Paton, "and the house he has made to fall with him, not as with Samson the house of his enemies...