Word: durban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Durban, the Reconstituted Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa charged that Prime Minister J. G. Strydom "is doing everything in his power to enlist the aid of the Dutch Reformed Church to achieve a totalitarian state in South Africa," warned that South Africa is "being led toward a police state" by an Afrikaner brotherhood said to be backed by the major Dutch Reformed Churches...
...away from school, scorned his father's efforts to make him a farmer. When World War II began, he joined the South African Air Force, but soon "lost his temper" and was put under arrest. He escaped by pole-vaulting the prison stockade, hopped a train to Durban and enlisted in the artillery under a fake name. Demobilized in 1945, a veteran of Anzio and Cassino, he set about the more serious business of fighting crocodiles...
...size of South Carolina, sugar-growing Natal is a lush land where 250,000 Britons rule over 2,000,000 Zulus and 300,000 Indians. Its largest city, Durban (pop. 400,365), has Miami-size beach hotels, slums worse than Manhattan's, and a shopping center that resembles London's West End, except for Zulu ricksha boys in painted cowhorns and feathers...
...PARKER Durban, Natal, South Africa...
Then, in a land where a Negro's life has little value, a strange event occurred. Led by Anne McTavish. a white Durban city councilor, scores of white women, leaders of their communit)-, went into the city streets and set up little tables with placards reading: "Save this old man from the gallows." In three days they collected 17,000 white signatures pleading with South Africa's Governor General Ernest George Jansen to reprieve 72-year-old Head Man Mdhlani. It was the first time in South Africa's history that so many whites had united...