Word: oudtshoorn
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...heard just the same tales regarding the terrorists and had all the same propaganda assault our ears, plus harsh laws to assure our safety. The result? The so-called terrorists are now the benign rulers and are making a success of the country and race relations. William Gould Oudtshoorn, South Africa Crossing out al-Zarqawi's face in blood red sent a strong message. He was an embodiment of evil who deserved his fate, and your graphic statement was right on the money. Still, I bet that you received lots of protests from softhearted readers decrying the image. Paul...
...Patrick Marenene, a community council member in the township outside Oudtshoorn in the Cape province, was watching television at his home when a mob gathered in front and demanded that he come outside. Marenene managed to escape as the comrades threw his furniture into the street and ignited it. As Marenene was picking through the rubble two days later, the youths returned. This time they quickly hacked and burned him to death...
Boer War barnstorming seemed to be paying off for the Nationalist leaders. At last week's special election in Oudtshoorn, an Afrikaner stronghold 278 miles east of Cape Town, the National Party candidate defeated both his United Party opponent and a right-wing Afrikaner splinter candidate by an unusually wide margin. "An inspiring test of strength," beamed Prime Minister Vorster. Opposition leaders, though, insisted that Oudtshoorn-which is best known in South Africa for the ostriches it raises-was hardly an index of the national mood. "The Afrikaners here will get a shock," said one United Party politician, "when...
...more pleased than South Africa's ostrich king, 78-year-old Max Rose, who owns 8,000 birds. He sleeps by day in a hotel room in Oudtshoorn, breakfasts at midnight in his big, untidy office, heaped high with bundles of ostrich feathers, and works while others sleep. Max Rose, who has made & lost fortunes in feathers, is now apparently going to make another...
...hazards of his birds.* He managed to keep his flock together, cashed in on each tiny feather boomlet as it appeared. In 1931, the Empress Eugenie hat style started a flurry in feathers. In 1947, Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth helped start the present revival by visiting Oudtshoorn, praising feathers and publicly plucking an ostrich. This year, Manhattan's Walter Florell ("the mood at the moment is to look bold") is trimming hats with Lillian Russell-sized plumes (see cut). But he has tuned them to the 20th Century by coating them with copper, rust and gold lacquers...