Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news of the Supreme Court's decision, anti-Malan stockbrokers in Johannesburg waltzed gleefully around the exchange floor, and many of South Africa's good white people rejoiced...
...good grey New York Times, which can pack more into a lead sentence than a Saratoga trunk should be expected to hold, sometimes can't get the lid closed. Last week a special dispatch from Johannesburg began: "Nationalist Party members of Parliament, sitting as the High Court of Parliament, handed down a ruling today setting aside the appeal court's invalidation of the Voters Act that removed colored (mixed blood) voters from the common electoral roll...
Starting with thrice-weekly Comet flights between London and Johannesburg, British Overseas Airways Corp. recently launched a weekly service between London and Ceylon, and made a 23,000-mile trail-blazing flight to Tokyo and back. In a few weeks BOAC plans to start regular service to Singapore, add a Tokyo run early next year. The speedy Comet cruises at 480 m.p.h., but eats so much fuel it stops frequently to reload. Even so, it flies a 6,724-mile course to Johannesburg, with five stops, in about 24 hours. It has proved so popular that it carries capacity loads...
...Africa's Chinese colony, 4,000 strong and as sober as Mandarin ducks, this was a matter of face. At the same time that he signed Swart's Chinese prohibition decree, Governor General Ernest George Jansen invited Shao Ting, 58, Nationalist China's Consul General in Johannesburg, to a United Nations ball. Under the decree, Shao or any other Chinese attending the event would not be able to get a drink. Shao refused to go. He wrote to the government protesting the "stigma of inferiority" implied in Swart's decree. After all, said Shao, "we Chinese...
Swart relented-for one evening only. He told Johannesburg cops to look the other way while Shao and guests took a nip. So Shao went to the ball. Its purpose: to raise funds for Alcoholics Anonymous, which, in South Africa, is strictly an all-white organization...