Word: boers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once there were two little boys named Harry and Davy, one eight and the other five, whose father was killed in the Boer War. Their mother died soon after, and they went to live with their father's people on a farm in Nova Scotia...
...Flogging of a Kaffir" [TIME, June 7]: Had your correspondent used a fraction of the diligence he showed in tracking down and recording an anonymous "Boer farmer's" comments on the case, he could not have failed to mention in passing the countless numbers of South Africans-both "Boer farmers" and others-in whom the crime aroused the same shocked views as those held by the trial judge...
...morning last January, two young Boer farmers named Petrus and Pieter Gouws drove up to their neighbor's farm on the parching South African veld. The Gouws asked for Joseph Mokwatsi, a 17-year-old Negro employed as a field hand, explaining to his master: "We think he stole two jackets, and we want him to show us where he hid them." Joseph was handed over; the Gouws tied a leather thong around his neck, threw him into their truck and drove...
...more than a child," he said. The court sentenced both brothers to eight years in jail and ten strokes with a bamboo cane (not to be raised higher than the shoulder of the striker). And at that the courtroom buzzed, and white women sobbed. Explained a Boer farmer: "To see white men sent to prison and flogged like Kaffirs for killing a thieving Kaffir is the deepest humiliation...
...sympathetic and basically modest man. He fervently admires talent in others. But fellow toilers who do not share his perfectionism and his passion for work fill him with injured bewilderment and anger; he reacts to any threat against complete artistic control of his work with the ferocity of a Boer trekker defending his oxen against the howling black...