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Gruesome Twosome. For the next 18 months, Tikoloshe and Msomi tramped the paths of Natal's back country, slept and ate together. At last, in Zibeville Kraal, they found a girl whose blood was to Tikoloshe's liking. Msomi killed her, put some of her blood in a bottle...
...ramshackle native location in South Africa's province of Natal, a twelve-year-old girl lay ill for months subject to fits and spells of moroseness. Neither a doctor's drugs nor a witch doctor's charms did any good. Little Mavis Sithebe seemed to lose the will to live, took almost no food or drink for two weeks, was in a coma most of the time. One day, according to her tearful mother, "she just closed her eyes and died." Without bothering to examine the body, the district surgeon issued a death certificate. The family sent...
Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of psychology, will embark in March on a six-month trip to South Africa for study at the University of Natal in Durban...
Home to Teach. Bernadete never dreamed of becoming a national figure when she returned from Natal's high school eight years ago to teach in her native village of Currais Novos (pop. 2,643) in Rio Grande do Norte state. She was 17 then, young enough to take part in her pupils' games, pretty enough to attract the crowd of village swains who gathered daily in the sunny square. Her 30 charges accepted her as one of themselves and fondly called her "professorinha"-little teacher...
...customs die hard in a back country. Nowhere in Natal are the traditions of ancient India observed more strictly than on the backwoods Moonsammy banana farm near Sea Cow Lake. In nearby Durban, where many of South Africa's 365,000 Indians rub shoulders with the West, young Indian girls are often permitted to dance and date but Farmer Moonsammy kept his wife and five daughters always in the bondage of purdah, the second-rate status of women in the land of his ancestors. The five girls, ranging in age from 26 to 14, worked hard...