Word: swaziland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sending out squads (usually four men), each of which can spray about 10,000 houses a year with guns the size of a large fire extinguisher. In Mexico, 3,500,000 houses have been sprayed. The program is well along in Central America, coastal Ecuador and Peru, Formosa, Swaziland and Ceylon. It is finished in northern Venezuela, several Caribbean islands and parts of Argentina. Soon to feel the fine spray of DDT are Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Burma, the Philippines...
...dream thus analyzed in black and white raised more questions than even the commission could answer. Essential to the scheme was the incorporation in South Africa of the three enclaves formed by the British protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland, a fate that the natives of those protectorates strongly resist. To clear the black areas, thousands of white farmers would have to be moved from their farms and settled in white areas. If the black men still preferred Johannesburg to the bush, they could be forced into the national homes only with troops-an action that might well start...
Gunther quickly inspected Swaziland (contrary to legend, he reports, its native ruler does not have twelve toes), Portuguese Africa (forced labor is still the rule), the Belgian Congo (booming). He trekked to the jungle compound where...
Before the annual conference of South Africa's Methodist Church, the Rev. Joseph B. Webb, Bishop of Transvaal and Swaziland, lashed out at those "Apostles of Apartheid" in the Dutch Reformed Church who provide the Nationalist government with "gospel authority" for its persecution of the blacks. South Africa's Anglican Church joined in with an even stronger attack on two new racialist bills: one designed to take the teaching of black children out of the hands of the Christian missions, the other threatening to cancel the leases on churches whose pastors deplore Apartheid. Said Anglican Bishop Richard...
...occasion, with headdresses of beads or feathers, clanking bracelets and earrings, and costume jewelry made of bones, shells, bells, animal horns and beer-bottle tops. Officially constituting the African Dingaka Association, they were the witch doctors from the Union of South Africa and their cousins from Rhodesia, Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland...