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Word: transkeians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Today transistor radios are increasingly acceptable as a partial substitute, and so are Western-style clothes. Livestock farming is the main occupation, but there are factories for making matches, textiles and cutlery. A university is planned that will ultimately cost $80 million (though at present only 6% of all Transkeian children reach secondary school). The territory even has a new coat of arms-two leopards, a bull, an ear of corn and a cog wheel representing hoped-for industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Transkei Puppet Show | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

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