Word: durban
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masikoni Radebe, an amiable and middle-aged Zulu, was asleep with his wife in the servant quarters of a fashionable Durban apartment house when police barged in, herded the startled couple into a waiting van. At the station the Radebes saw scores of bewildered blacks pay a pound and depart. Those who could not pay were locked up. Radebe paid and went home...
...Capetown a woman who had given birth to a baby two hours before pushed her doctor aside and rode by taxi to vote. In Durban another woman arrived by ambulance, was carried on a stretcher into the polling hall. In Smuts's own constituency, Standerton, a septuagenarian Scot, recovering from a heart attack, insisted on voting for Smuts, collapsed and died before he could make his cross...
...Union of South Africa, home of 2.000,000 dominant whites, 7,000,000 blacks and 250,000 Indians, grappled last week with an ugly racial problem. In Durban, chief port and swank resort of Natal Province, prosperous Indian merchants and farmers (mostly descendants of laborers imported in the 19th Century) had bought $3,000,000 worth of property in the past two and a half years, had moved into new homes in the city's toniest suburbs...
Alarmed by this breach of the Union's rigid taboos, Parliament stood ready to forbid further property acquisitions by non-whites in Natal. Behind the measure stood hardheaded, international-minded Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts. Said he: Durban must remain a "white city," rich Indians should invest in war loans...
They fell in love in Johannesburg. Bennie Hermer was the young resident physician in Durban's King Edward VIII Hospital. Olda Mehr was a concert pianist, pretty, 18, with glowing black eyes. When she won the Royal Music Academy Award in 1938, she sailed for London, promising she would come back in a year to be married...