Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Transkei, an area of just over 16,550 miles, is no great gift to the people who will live in it. Like all the homelands to which black South Africans are assigned, it contains no industry, no mineral deposits and little fertile land. Unlike the other bantustans, the Transkei does have a coastline, but it has no port through which to import or export goods...
...result would be disastrous: in 1972, the Transkei was already so overcrowded that the then minister of roads and works for the area warned that his ministry might works for the area warned that his ministry might refuse to allow any more immigrants into the homeland, because the land could not support those who already lived there. Half the Transkei citizens, then, will be condemned to live as aliens outside their nominal country...
...live in the Transkei; most of the others live permanently in South Africa, but from now on they will be citizens of the Transkei-not of South Africa. The Transkei's 10,000 whites will still run much of the commerce and own some of the best farm land, though South Africa is buying out some white farms and businesses and turning them over to blacks at a low cost. (Indeed, Matanzima and his younger brother George, who is Justice Minister, have bought into hotels and liquor stores at rock-bottom prices under this system...
...shot mostly along the East German frontier, abounds in gutted industrial towers, deserted factories and vacant houses. Kings of the Road, which is almost three hours long, rambles aimlessly like Bruno and his pal. It does, however, project a fitfully vigorous vision of a troubled generation and a languishing land...
...Library Club, a social club for Harvard library employees, held a cookout on the land in early October...