Word: karoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whites, the physical wounds were light-amounting to some 30 injured policemen. Out in the wine-growing flatlands of Cape province or in the sheep-raising Karoo plateau, where the small villages are dominated by steeples of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Nationalist farmers had scarcely noticed anything wrong. At one vineyard, an Afrikaner shrugged: "Maybe the city people have trouble with their natives, but ours are satisfied. We treat them well, give them six tots of wine a day. and keep them peaceful. What have we to worry about?" Another saw Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's escape from...
...every veld farmhouse. In a book published early this month, called Our Responsibility, Fagan pronounced Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's rigid apartheid "hopelessly impractical," and pointed out that the government has found it "impossible" to carry through "the mass withdrawal of [ black] labor from European industries." Just as "Karoo farmers do not waste their time arguing whether the low rainfall of the area they farm in is something they should like or dislike . . . and adapt themselves to it," wrote Fagan, "we have to accept the fact of interdependence of the races in South Africa...