Word: burghersdorp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stellenbosch universities. "We're boss now," crowed three young toughs in Prime Minister Daniel Malan's own Piquetberg; they stormed into Grocer Abe Ginsberg's Main Street store and helped themselves to cheese. "In future we'll take what we want without paying." In rural Burghersdorp a pro-Malan voter had got so excited over the election returns on his radio that he ran out firing his rifle in the air, accidentally shot down his antenna. A Smuts supporter kicked his radio to smithereens and had to be given sedatives by the doctor...
...Although the hearsay evidence about the boy being found by the police is still maintained, nevertheless the previous institutionalization of Lucas at the Grahamstown Mental Hospital, the distance of Grahamstown from Burghersdorp (where he was allegedly found among baboons), and the fact that there is no mention of the baboon incident in the Mental Hospital records, all would seem to discount the existence of a "feral" period in Lucas' life...
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