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...Boer and ex-Guide Peter Pienaar. who "could track a tsessebe in thick bush" (Buchan readers know what a tsessebe is*), turns out to be most useful in Green-mantle as a messenger. He slithers silently through Turkish lines and brings news of Turkish weak spots to the Grand Duke commanding the Russian forces. Because it is Buchan, the Grand Duke turns out to have hunted lions with Peter on the veld back...
...Apartheid (apartness) is one of the few Boer words any well-informed American is apt to recognize. But what it's like is less familiar. And just why it applies to swimmers three miles out tells another side of the Africa story. Also in THE WORLD...
...year Verwoerd is pumping $4,200,000 into the immigrant assistance program, has urged private organizations to help South Africa's campaign overseas. Only a few years ago, the Afrikaner regime was discouraging immigrants from Britain for fear of losing control in the bitter political struggle of white Boers against white Anglo-Saxons that outlived the Boer War. Now that the Afrikaners are firmly in power, even the British-dominated 1820 Memorial Settlers' Association is being invited to help find white immigrants in Britain itself. The government's first task is to help find 1,000 doctors...
...intercourse with native blacks over the years. The other racial groups in South Africa: 11 million blacks (also known as Bantu, Kaffirs, or simply natives), who enjoy even fewer privileges than the coloreds; 500,000 Asians; 3,000,000 whites. Of the latter, about 1,800,000 are of Boer (Dutch) stock and known as Afrikaners...
...time for the speeches. Braving the elements. 6-ft. 7-in. Charles ("Blackie") Swart stepped forward solemnly to take the oath as the nation's first President. It was, he intoned, "a sacred moment in the history of our fatherland.'' In the Afrikaners' eyes, the Boer War was finally won after six bitter decades; no longer would South Africa pay fealty to an alien English-speaking monarch in London...