Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Germans, and beat to the punch the stodgy starched-collared heirs of Cecil Rhodes, the legendary empire builder and diamond czar who died in 1902. Then he tackled the giant of the diamond world, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. He bored from within, buying stock on the Johannesburg exchange, share by share, until he had enough to become a director...
...October, is now in operation at Pasadena, Calif. The others, it is hoped, will be ready by the beginning of next year. They will be located at Curacao, West Indies; Arequipa, Peru; Villa Dolores, Argentina; Maui, Hawaii; Tokyo, Japan; Woomera, Australia; Naini-tad, India; Shiraz, Iran; Cadiz, Spain, and Johannesburg, South Africa...
...also be black v. black. All over the land, and most particularly in the ramshackle black suburbs that now ring the great white cities, tribal jealousies fester. In native townships bearing such names as Zondi, Moroka and Shantytown-from which some 94,000 native workers stream each day into Johannesburg to work for the white man-Basutos, Bechuanas, Xhosas and Zulus live more or less segregated from one another under a government policy designed to preserve tribal instincts and to maintain the fiction that all native labor is transient and will some day return to the bush...
Bloody Boogie. Early this month, fed by weeks of intertribal bitterness, open battle was joined between the Basutos and the Zulus of Johannesburg. Two Zulus were beaten to death and a Basuto leader was caught, castrated and clubbed to death. The proprietor of a lunchroom shut down his jukebox, on the theory that too many tunes like White Horse Boogie and Bennie's Second Street Special would overexcite his Zulu clients. The precaution did little good. On the following Saturday a swarming mass of Zulus marched against the Basutos, armed with clubs and spears...
...month-old baby was shot on its mother's back. Last week police were able at last to chalk up a partial list of the casualties: 40 dead in the city morgue, another 30 wounded, in the native hospital. As tension continued to mount in the native townships, Johannesburg's police called in army help in a desecrate effort to reestablish law and order...