Word: kraals
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...British Crown Colony of Kenya, while 3,000 coal-black tribesmen, huddled in a kraal, watched in awe, a goat was slowly beaten to death and buried alongside a virgin ewe. After that ancient rite, supposedly strong magic against evil, an official representative of the Great White Queen Across the Waters pronounced a solemn curse against the Mau-Mau. The Mau-Mau (rhymes with yoyo) is a native secret society which has lately been worrying the British. London is afraid that the Mau-Mau might plunge Britain's East African empire into guerrilla war, and turn Kenya into another...
...find new homes in the Zulu domain, asked Dingaan to give them land. The Vulture agreed, if the Voortrekkers would first recover some cattle stolen from him by a hostile tribe. The Boers did so, then went to seal the bargain at a great feast in Dingaan's kraal...
...guests left their weapons outside the kraal with their women & children. At the height of the festivity, after a tumultuous war dance, Dingaan's Zulus fell upon the Dutchmen, dragged them to the hill of execution, beat them to death with knobkerries, then surged on the Boer wagons to massacre the women & children...
...hear anything at all) is something of far less dramatic import-a sort of airborne Agony Column, with a dash of the Court Circular thrown in: 'Will M'Bongo please return from the yampatch. All is forgiven . . .' 'Is there a witch doctor in the kraal?' 'The chief's brother-in-law, a person of the noblest character, will arrive tomorrow...
...Antonie Botha, 22, were at work in Johannesburg's Pass Office. When Robert Chanke, an elderly Negro from upcountry Transvaal, shuffled into their room seeking a work permit, the white clerks tried to make him admit illegal entry from Rhodesia. Chanke insisted that he lived in a Transvaal kraal, had a right to work in Johannesburg...