Word: durban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head man of his village. Mdhlani married, prospered, begat children, grew old, respected and respectable. But one son, Clifford, became a thief and a gangster. Three years ago, son Clifford, all his bravado gone, crept into his father's hut. He whispered that he had murdered a white Durban policeman, and blubbered: "They will hang...
...veld, stayed there three days and three nights, praying to God for guidance. When he returned on the third night, he went straight to Clifford's hut, took one of Clifford's three pistols and killed his sleeping son. Then he surrendered to the police. In Durban police court, he said: "I shot my son because he killed a white man. Do what you will." Mdhlani was sentenced to hang...
...South Africa te which Scott returned is the most important and most troubled of these mixed societies. The government of the late Field Marshal Smuts passed a bill that segregated the Indian minority in Durban. Scott found that young Indian men & women were going each evening to camp or stand on a piece of ground that was now reserved for Europeans. He put on his cassock and joined them. Pleasant-looking young white men in athletic clothes gathered with pretty girls under the trees opposite. They attacked the Indians, making hunting cries. They did not touch Scott. They merely said...
More dangerous to Malan-and to every white man in South Africa was the threat of race war. In the teeming slums of Johannesburg, in crime-infested Durban, the slow wrath of the black man rose against apartheid (segregation). African leaders announced that they would "court arrest until the jails are full." A nationwide civil disobedience campaign by black, brown and half-whites was set for April 6, South Africa's national holiday. The organizers said they would stick to passive resistance, and would start no trouble. But in South Africa's present mood, they were inviting...
...Eric Louw told the South African Parliament that one European black-marketeer, working through a Swiss bank and with a forged Lloyd's certificate that his bags had been inspected and approved, loaded a million bags aboard a British freighter at Genoa. When the bales were unwrapped at Durban, they proved to be full of rags. The swindler, admitted Minister Louw, got away with $700,000 of the government's money...