Word: natalic
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...Nationalists by declaring that if his party should get power again, he would not guarantee to restore the vote to colored citizens. The announcement merely split his own party. Quietly and remorsefully the Senate debated its own death sentence. One by one Senators rose to make their last speeches. Natal's Edward Brown seemed near to tears as he spoke his own political requiem: "This is a rape of the constitution. The country is at the mercy of the Nationalist Cabinet. It's no longer Volkswil [i.e., the will of the people] but Natswil." Then, slumping back into...
...that there is a partnership between God and Strydom-and that Strydom is the senior partner." British South Africans, most of whom stood by indifferently while the Nationalists suppressed the blacks, rose in solemn wrath now that their own liberties were threatened. In the sugar-growing coastal province -of Natal, where the British .outnumber the Boers by better than three to one, ther'e was talk of secession. But the opposition that counted most arose where it was least expected: among the Boers themselves. Thirteen Nationalist professors and senior lecturers at the Afrikaans University of Pretoria condemned the Senate...
...sent to South Africa. There, harassed by "snakes, ticks and other insects," and "in the presence of lions," they shot the backgrounds for the picture. For one scene the studio hired 3,000 Zulu warriors, shipped them by plane and oxcart to the Valley of the Thousand Hills in Natal province, and there built a small city named "Zanuckville" to house them...
...Natal, it turned out, was no place for him either. After a gang of hired toughs wrecked his newspaper office, the police threatened to jail him as a troublemaker. He skipped town, but his avoidance of the Natal jail was only temporary. As editor of a newspaper in the city of Recife, he wrote a front-page manifesto, denouncing Brazil's President Artur Bernardes as a "bloody dictator." Warned that he was about to be arrested for sedition, he fled back to Natal, where the police welcomed him with open handcuffs and locked him up for 72 days...
...majority of the votes. When the government tried to annul the election, Gauchos of Vargas' home state marched on Rio. Café Filho, fired by Vargas' eloquent talk of reform, joined the Vargas partisans in northeastern Brazil, took part in the successful seizure of Natal. Appointed police chief of his home town, with headquarters right next to the customs house, he soon noted the daily visits of a customs official's attractive daughter, Jandira Fernandes de Oliveira. In September 1931 he and Jandira got married...