Word: natalic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black headlines last week told South Africans of the troubles elsewhere. RACES IN U.S. ON COLLISION COURSE, announced the Natal Mercury, while the Johannesburg Star gave prominence tO THE TRIBAL WAR IN NIGERIA. In the bright and busy nation at Africa's southern tip, however, such difficulties seemed far away. Topless nighties were the talk of Cape Town. In Johannesburg, where last month's antique-car rally had drawn 69 entrants-from a 1907 Diatto-Clement to a 1938 Bugatti-the city was debating whether the miniskirt should be banned, and the ballet season began with performances...
...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 the soil is so rich that "if you throw seeds into your garden when you go to bed, you won't be able to see out of your window in the morning...
...only homeland that has been turned into an official Bantustan is the Transkei, a region of 16,500 square miles and 1.5 million Xhosa tribesmen in the state of Natal. With an elected Parliament of 45 members and Para mount Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief, the Transkei was granted semi-autonomy last year, and Verwoerd talks with apparent sincerity of eventual, full independence...
Socialization has immunized man against the wonder and mystery of existence, argues Oxford Theologian Ian Ramsey. "We are now sheltered from all the great crises of life. Birth is a kind of discontinuity between the prenatal and post-natal clinics, while death just takes somebody out of the community, possibly to the tune of prerecorded hymns at the funeral parlor." John Courtney Murray suggests that man has lost touch with the transcendent dimension in the transition from a rural agricultural society to an urbanized, technological world. The effect has been to veil man from what he calls natural symbols?...
...government hauled out its trusty racial iron and took a hefty swing. Police enforced tighter separation of the crowds, posted two agents with Sewgolum to keep the whites at a safe distance, and summarily banned Sewgolum from any further tournaments after the South African P.G.A., including the Natal Open, which he won last year. If Player was bothered by such unsportsmanlike treatment, he did not show it. "I play golf," he remarked. "I don't meddle in politics." In South Africa, they are apparently one and the same game...