Word: pretoria
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...fought for copies of the newspaper extras that brought the first word of the assassination. In Johannesburg, a bus driver saw the headlines, stopped his bus, and fainted at the wheel. A quarter of a million South Africans, black as well as white, stood silently on the streets of Pretoria while his funeral procession filed past. Hundreds of thousands of whites flocked to their churches for solace. "May the God in whom we believe make clear to us in his own time what this horrible event is to signify to our country and her people," intoned Cape Town...
...talk was friendly enough, but except to be photographed, Verwoerd refused to appear in public with Chief Jonathan. So the visitor had his chat, adjourned to lunch in a private room in a hotel-and flew home the same day to avoid the embarrassment of no room in Pretoria's whites-only hotels for the night...
Chin in Palm. On the farms of the Transvaal, bearded Afrikaner patriarchs, who still rule their Bantu field hands with a Bible in one hand and a rawhide sjambok whip in the other, were talking mostly of wool and cattle prices-and of their trip to Pretoria last...
Blue & Orange. South Africa has three capitals, one each in three of the four separate states that joined together in 1910. The administrative capital is Pretoria, a city of wide avenues and blue jacaranda blossoms in the onetime Boer Republic of the Transvaal. The Supreme Court is located in Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State. Parliament meets in Cape Town, oldest city in the republic and home of most of its 1,747,000 "Coloreds" (mulattoes), who once enjoyed almost the same rights and privileges as the whites...