Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Again. In Johannesburg, South Africa, Magistrate A. S. Mathews fined a culprit ?10 for stealing a copy of a book called I Sinned Again...
...Africa from the Germans in World War I, and who favored a moderate racial policy, lay gravely ill last week at his farm near Pretoria. Rabid Nationalists kept him awake with taunting phone calls as the election returns from South-West Africa came in. In the streets of Pretoria, Johannesburg and Capetown, citizens who realized that the Germans now had the balance of power in their Parliament asked each other, "How's your German...
...celebrate the birthday, the South African Broadcasting Corp. had planned a feature broadcast. The government angrily protested, and the program was canceled. Johannesburg offered Smuts the freedom of the city; one of Malan's leaders, J. G. Strydom, called a special meeting to object that Smuts had done nothing for South Africa and had worked only for the British empire. Smuts, who has spent half a century working for peace, justice and world understanding, said nothing...
...Johannesburg gave Strydom his answer. Despite the chill winter weather, 50,000 shouting citizens, white and black, crowded round the city hall to cheer for Smuts. The old man stood slim, erect and bareheaded on a dais shaped like a birthday cake, and told South Africans: "Cast fear out of your hearts and put an end to bickering and quarreling. Concentrate on the great things that are on the doorstep...
...Erleigh was fined ?95,115 and Milne ?88,810, with total prison sentences to run 52 years if fines are unpaid. They were the stiffest sentences ever meted out in South Africa for such crimes. But Erleigh was not crushed. He appealed the verdict and published advertisements in the Johannesburg newspapers touting his new stock promotion, "Union Gold & Base Metals Corp...