Word: kaffir
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...greatest gold rush since the Klondike was on last week. But most of the prospectors were the slick, sharp-eyed speculators of the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges. In the "kaffir circuses"-the usually cautious sections of the exchanges where South African gold stocks are traded-the market value of Orange Free State shares zoomed $100,000,000 in 48 hours...
...ever, was the time for the rain makers. In the kraals the witch doctors prepared to use their muti (medicine). In Parliament Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts proclaimed a national day of prayer for rain. On the advice of their witch doctors, Basutos climbed their peaks with calabashes of Kaffir beer to propitiate their ancestors. But no rain came...
...white queen across the seas"-had any white woman won comparable confidence among South Africa's natives. Their world is still a man's world, where a bride may be bought with cattle, where a wife labors as a beast of burden while her lord & master drinks Kaffir beer, hunts and squats on his haunches. Mrs. Ballinger had overcome the prejudice. More than that, as their Parliamentary spokesman, she was in a position to weld South Africa's tribesmen, now divided, into a single whole. For the Union, such a move could have far-reaching consequences...
...themselves northward across the Orange and Vaal Rivers into the then unknown region of the Transvaal. It was a perilous undertaking, for besides the barrier range of mountains, the rivers across the way, the high plateau of the Transvaal itself was lion-infested, overrun by the warlike Zulu and Kaffir tribes. Moving in great wagon trains for safety's sake and driving their cattle before them, the emigrants swarmed in-in such numbers that by 1852 more than 40,000 voortrekkers had made the journey, resettled themselves on the new lands. It is the adventures of such a wagon...
...uncut, egg-sized stone which shrewd Sir Ernest Oppenheimer of Britain's Diamond Corp. bought for $312,000, Dealer Winston had reputedly paid $730,000. The Jonker, youngest and most perfect of the world's great diamonds, was found one January day last year by the black Kaffir boy of Jacobus J. Jonker, a seedy South African prospector. That night Prospector Jonker tied the stone around his wife's neck, bolted his cabin doors, stood guard until dawn with his son Jacobus Jr. Next morning the stone was weighed at 726 carats, took rank as the fourth...