Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little and toughen. Then have one of your black boys taper the kiboko, or sjamboke, down, smooth and polish it with a bit of broken glass. Grinning ingratiatingly, he will hand you a tawny whip. Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men. The callous manner in which White Rancher Jaerl Nafte recently violated every rule and canon of kiboko etiquette was really the cause of his undoing...
Some years ago the Union of South Africa forbade laying on of the kiboko by private individuals; but this law, like U. S. Prohibition statutes, has suffered practical modification. Just as home brew may be brewed in comparative security throughout the U. S., so a white South Africander may kiboko his refractory blacks providing the kibokee is first stretched on the ground and covered with a blanket to protect him from embarrassing welts and cuts with which he might run to the District Commissioner...
Last week all the southern gentlemen in South Africa were incensed when Jaerl Nafte was convicted of manslaughtering Sixpence and sentenced not only to seven years' imprisonment but to receive ten lashes at the whipping post. Never before had a white man been sentenced to be kibokoed in South Africa for kibokoing a blackamoor. Irate Protestant editors called Catholic Judge Saul Solomon, K. C, who imposed the sentence, "negrophilist...
...appeal by counsel for the defendant to South African Prime Minister, General the Hon. James Barry Munnik Hertzog brought a curt reply, "The sentence of flogging must be carried...
...Body. In his graceful manner he merely fashions what his publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars, and shaded with willows and live oaks and linden, were planted with white flowers-Cape jasmines, bridal wreath, white japonica, sweet alyssum and white althea. In the strange white radiance of Alabama moonlight white...