Word: schoeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ride, on the grounds that tickets for all available seats had already been sold, and hundreds of walking Negroes were arrested on the roads and herded into jails on cooked-up charges. The Negroes still refused to ride the buses. "We must smash this boycott," said Transport Minister Ben Schoeman. "It's only a test by the African National Congress of its power. If they want a showdown, they'll get it." But when one big Johannesburg chain store, accepting the government's get-tough advice, threatened to fire three Negroes for coming late to work...
...Elizabeth; low-flying planes "exercised" over the "disaffected areas." In the cities, Boers and Britons alike queued up to buy guns; on the veld, Boer farmers organized rifle commandos, itched to "teach the Kaffirs a lesson they won't forget." "The time is coming," warned Labor Minister Ben Schoeman, "when our white women also must carry arms...
...Schoeman. "That's just why we must not let them, for it would imperil white civilization...
...jungle telegraph, he passed the word that he was planning to give away free tobacco rations. Some 40 pygmies showed up for the handout. Of these, Schoeman was able to persuade only 18 to help him in his experiment. The 18 made the long trek south to Cape Town, so that the white men at South Africa's tercentenary exposition this week could see the pygmies in the flesh. Only men and married women went along because, as any pygmy knows, a maiden who drinks water from alien springs will become sterile...
...Warden Schoeman is worried that the little visitors may like their lazy life in Cape Town so much that they will not want to go back to Okavango. But he feels sure that sooner or later they will realize a home in the bush is worth two automobiles in Cape Town. Eventually, inquisitive scientists will have to track them down to their desert home...