Word: karroo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright sun and haunting beauty. Fine wine grapes grow in the protected valleys in the southwest, while elephant, rhino and springbok range the high savanna of Kruger National Park in the northeast. Ostrich farms dot the harsh, baked landscape beneath the kopjes (flat-topped hills) of the Great Karroo, where two centuries ago Dutch trekboers lived in small nomadic communi ties. South of the Kalahari Desert is the high veld, a great, green, grassy plateau where cattle and sheep graze in endless herds. On the Indian Ocean's shore lie the lovely rolling hills of Natal, whose citizens claim...
...world's supply. Not far away, in the middle of the great Vaal River coal fields, the government-owned SASOL plant turns coal into oil, the only major product in which South Africa is not self-sufficient; 18 companies are now exploring for oil in Zululand and the Karroo...
After a day or two on the lone Karroo, the freeloading louse begins to think he wouldn't really like a home where the elephants roam. When a tribe of blacks turn up and start flipping spears at the wagon circle, he decides to cut out for the coast. But the baas (Raymond Massey) persuades him to stay for the big battle, which is something less than a Zululu, and he enters the Promised Land neck and neck with the baas's daughter (Juliet Prowse...