Word: durban
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When the wind is still, a strange and pungent odor rises over the pleasant resort city of Durban on the Indian Ocean. It comes usually from the tin-shanty slum of Cato Manor to the west, where, ever since the Union government forbade blacks to drink anything alcoholic other than the watery government beer served in municipal bars, Zulu women have been brewing a crude moonshine of their own. A high-power popskull made of methylated spirits, carbide, potato peels or just about anything else that will ferment, this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source...
...Durban, South Africa
...Africa has been largely written in conflict of black v. white. But a third group exists there-"the indigestible filling in the black-and-white sandwich," as it has been called. Africa's Asian minority poses problems of its own. They showed most plainly ten years ago in Durban, South Africa, when in the course of a minor scuffle an angry Indian merchant pushed an African boy's head through a shop window and gave him superficial cuts. Passersby spread the word exaggeratedly: an Indian has killed an African. That night Africans began attacking every Hindu in sight...
...four years Natal's sugar exports multiplied 33 times. The indentured Indians became settlers in their own right, and other immigrants-the "free" or "passenger" Indians-flocked to make a new life for themselves in the new land. In 1897, aged 28, young Mohandas Gandhi was stoned by Durban white settlers and came close to being hanged from a lamppost...
...Durban, South Africa