Word: boers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime Hollywood bit-player cowboy who towers 6 ft. 7 in., managed a perpetual wan smile, and by the time he left for home the hue and cry had died down, even if no one was happy that the Queen's representative in South Africa should be a Boer with a pronounced anti-British bias (based on childhood memories of being herded into a British prison camp with his mother), dedicated to making his country a republic and taking it out of the Commonwealth. The Labor Party's executive committee last week passed a resolution urging party members...
Died. Victor McLaglen, 72, adventurer on and off the movie screen; of congestive heart failure; in Newport Beach, Calif. Born in England, brought up in South Africa, hulking (6 ft. 3 in., more than 200 lbs.) Victor McLaglen fought in the Boer War (1899-1902), dug for gold in Canada, won an Oscar for his lead performance in The Informer...
...Empire, commanded a daring but futile expedition (1918-19) against the Bolsheviks at Archangel, served briefly (1939-40) as Chief of the British Imperial General Staff; of a heart attack; in London. Lord Ironside could speak 16 languages, once posed for two years (1900-02) as a Boer in the German army in Southeast Africa, so impressed his Prussian superiors that the young spy was awarded the German Military Service Medal...
There is only one real issue in South African politics: the pace and vigor with which the Union's 3,000,000 whites maintain their dominance over South Africa's 11,000,000 blacks and coloreds. It is eleven years since the Boer Afrikaner National Party rode into power on a platform of apartheid-all-out segregation. Since then, at the cost of twisting the nation's parliamentary and judicial traditions almost beyond recognition, and using a curious mixture of police-state methods and paternalism, the Nationalists have gone a long way toward fulfilling their segregation promises...
...Johannesburg's Boer burghers, propping the apartheid barriers raised against South Africa's 9,000,000 blacks and coloreds, the suggestion of blood ties was intolerable. But then, intolerable was what the magazine meant it to be. Beamed straight at the heart of Africa's black man, Drum in eight years has grown from a scarcely audible protest into a commanding voice. Each month 240,000 copies are distributed across Africa-more than any other magazine, black or white. By Mammy-wagon bus and human shoulder, it reaches into eight African countries (Union of South Africa, Central...