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Word: temba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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Neglecting to use a blanket, rash Rancher Jaerl Nafte and his foreman proceeded to kiboko a black named Sixpence Temba who, they said, had insulted a white woman. Spreadeagling the horrified blackamoor on a wagon wheel, they lashed him until their arms were tired. Later they suspended him by one toe from a tree and went on with the kibokoing though he screamed that they were killing him. When tired again, they left him and went off to a picnic. Sixpence, as he had prophesied, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Kiboko | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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