Word: natalic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Millions of other South Africans-the English-speaking whites, the blacks, the coloreds and the Indians-could only watch in bitter resignation or sullen silence. In English-speaking Natal, clumps of whites gathered at cocktail parties to defiantly toast the Queen. In Port Elizabeth, an anonymous artist painted a huge Union Jack on the street. Liberals pointed out that only a bare majority of the white population (the only ones allowed to vote) had voted for the republic-850,458 people out of South Africa's total 15,841,128 population...
...highbred rams and planting them in the wombs of lowbred ewes. This is a handy way to multiply valuable animal strains far faster than nature can do the same job, but when Dr. Adams wanted to improve the breed of South African sheep by shipping the fertilized ova to Natal, he ran into difficulty. They cannot be shipped frozen, and there was no mechanical device that would keep them alive in a natural state...
...latest caper in Canadian colleges is bed pushing. Born at the University of Rhodesia, and perfected-as was last year's college craze, phone-booth stacking -at South Africa's University of Natal, it spread over some sort of Commonwealth bush telegraph. Last week Canadian college students from Nova Scotia to British Columbia were indefatigably mounting beds on wheels and pushing them over highways, prairies and frozen lakes. The current world's record of 1,000 continuous miles is claimed by a team from Ontario's Queens University, which kept its Simmons rolling day and night...
...home, Verwoerd's troubles have already started. In Natal, the "Jingo" Province, the republic was rejected by more than 70 per cent of the voters, the majority of whom are English-speaking and regard Britain as "home." There have been cries of "secession" in the province since the result of the referendum has been announced...
...Natal's threats were mostly bluster. When the time came, most Natalians and other English-speaking South Africans would accept the republic that the Nationalists almost certainly would force on the nation, referendum...