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Word: schalkwyk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
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...where watching Negroes counted 66 more lashes with the hose. "They kept lifting Joseph up and hitting him," said one witness afterwards. But Joseph persisted in his denial, so the Gouws tossed him into the truck again and drove off to consult their uncle, 69-year-old Pieter van Schalkwyk. While the family took coffee together, Joseph was left in the sun, tied to the truck with a thong around his neck. At last, Uncle van Schalkwyk decided to try his hand at making Joseph talk. "I gave him about four blows on the back and buttocks," Van Schalkwyk said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Flogging of a Kaffir | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

That night the men of the Gouws family fashioned a rough coffin, and Mistress Katrina van Schalkwyk supplied a winding sheet. Joseph's body was delivered to his grandmother with strict instructions: "You must bury him without opening the coffin, because he died of a contagious disease." But Joseph's father, Abraham, raised the coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Flogging of a Kaffir | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

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