Word: skokiaan
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Most just sat and talked of the violent events of the past days, speculated fearfully of violence still to come. But some also drank from jugs of the fiery illicit skokiaan until it was time to meet the evening trains from town. Drunk and angry, they grabbed stones, sticks and jagged pieces of metal to greet the few Africans who had disregarded Mourning Day and had gone in to work for the white man as usual. Forming a human chain across the tracks, one gang stopped a commuter train, dragged off the dozen Africans aboard and kicked and beat them...
...blacks to drink anything alcoholic other than the watery government beer served in municipal bars, Zulu women have been brewing a crude moonshine of their own. A high-power popskull made of methylated spirits, carbide, potato peels or just about anything else that will ferment, this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source of income for the "Shebeen Queens" who make it. Last week, when the Durban city council started transferring the people of Cato Manor to a new apartheid village farther away from town, the police moved in to smash the stills before the women...
South Africa's bootleg native drink, skokiaan (subject of a recent U.S. hit tune), is usually mixed by "skokiaan queens" who know how to spike it with enough methyl alcohol to provide the jolt that thrills but does not kill. The balance is so easily upset that natives often go mad or blind from the skokiaan they buy in the shebeens of the native quarters...
...Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White mambo in the film Underwater! In the last two months more than half a million mambo records have been sold, and Japanese recording companies have been working overtime to meet the mamboom. Top hit is still Cherry Pink, followed closely by Skokiaan Mambo and Cerezo Rosa (a different arrangement of Cherry Pink). Local mambo composers are doing their best to catch...
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