Word: natalic
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...might after a suitably triumphant electoral victory release most of the detainees and reduce the threat to the nation's press. (Last week, in a little-noticed token of liberalization, the government reversed a decision that would have excluded black and Indian students from the mostly white Natal medical school.) But blacks and their white supporters would still have the memory of a vivid lesson-that the government has the legal authority to crush dissent any time it pleases...
Most of the 2.5 million coloreds live in the western Cape Province; there are also small pockets near Durban, Natal and Johannesburg. They generally speak Afrikaans, the language of the Dutch settlers. They have better employment opportunities-and are usually paid more-than blacks, particularly in the Cape, where many hold skilled or semiskilled jobs that would be reserved for whites in Johannesburg. But like blacks, and Asians, they are subject to rigid apartheid laws that designate where they may live, what public facilities they may use and that, of course, forbid them to marry whites...
...include South Africa's 8,000 or so Chinese who are, curiously, treated almost as honorary whites under the apartheid laws. The first Asians were imported in 1860 to work as indentured laborers on the sugar estates then being started in the fertile coastal regions of Natal. Some who had come over as traders eventually started small shops or became market gardeners and hawkers. Many have branched out into the manufacturing industries, mostly in textiles and clothing, rice processing and sugar milling. Like the coloreds, South African Asians have their own schools, including the University of Natal (Westville...
...Their ancestors are believed to have entered Africa from the Mesopotamian valley more than 10,000 years ago, following their cattle into new grazing lands up the Nile valley and finally to the southern part of the continent and what is now Rhodesia and the South African provinces of Natal and the Transvaal...
Today the 5 million Zulus are still the largest tribe in South Africa. Half live and farm in the fertile hills and valleys of KwaZulu, the designated "homeland" that forms a patchwork quilt of territory from the Mozambique border in the north to southern Natal and the Transkei in the south. There they live much in the tribal style of old, in beehive-shaped mud and thatch huts, sharing the kraal with their cattle. The other half work in the "white man's" South Africa, living in bedroom ghettos like Soweto. They are frequently favored for positions of trust...