Word: karroo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusty Karroo town of Laingsburg, armed police were waiting for the hotheads. The soldiers piled off the train, pushed through the police, began to move in on the town. The police fired a volley over their heads, but they only laughed and went ahead. The next round killed one and wounded...
Born on the Karroo plateau near Cape Town 36 years ago, Josef Marais began as a child to collect the songs he heard the Hottentot farm boys sing. By the time he was 19 and a fiddler with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra he had amassed a great fund of native and Boer folk songs. In 1930, in London, he sang a few for BBC, soon became a BBC standby. When NBC gave him a quarter-hour spot two years ago he got so much fan mail that his time was increased to a half-hour. One homesick South African...