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...boys taper the kiboko, or sjamboke, down, smooth and polish it with a bit of broken glass. Grinning ingratiatingly, he will hand you a tawny whip. Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men. The callous manner in which White Rancher Jaerl Nafte recently violated every rule and canon of kiboko etiquette was really the cause of his undoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Kiboko | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Neglecting to use a blanket, rash Rancher Jaerl Nafte and his foreman proceeded to kiboko a black named Sixpence Temba who, they said, had insulted a white woman. Spreadeagling the horrified blackamoor on a wagon wheel, they lashed him until their arms were tired. Later they suspended him by one toe from a tree and went on with the kibokoing though he screamed that they were killing him. When tired again, they left him and went off to a picnic. Sixpence, as he had prophesied, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Kiboko | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Last week all the southern gentlemen in South Africa were incensed when Jaerl Nafte was convicted of manslaughtering Sixpence and sentenced not only to seven years' imprisonment but to receive ten lashes at the whipping post. Never before had a white man been sentenced to be kibokoed in South Africa for kibokoing a blackamoor. Irate Protestant editors called Catholic Judge Saul Solomon, K. C, who imposed the sentence, "negrophilist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Kiboko | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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