Word: transvaal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heaton Nicholls' plan is for a federal South Africa, split int01) a Boer Republic in Transvaal, Orange Free State and part of Cape Province, 2) a British dominion in Natal and the rest of the Cape. Fire-eating veterans of the anti-Malan Torch Commando back Nicholls to the hilt, but the leaders of the Opposition United Party call his scheme "preposterous," and declare that a British attempt at secession might risk a second Boer...
When Nana Sita, president of the Transvaal Indian Congress, was sentenced to jail, he read a statement to the court: "I have deliberately and willfully committed a breach of the law under which I am charged. This I have done in full knowledge of its implications . . . . I do not plead for mitigation or mercy. I have decided to go to gaol so that my suffering and the suffering of the oppressed people of this land may ultimately bring about the conditions which will make South Africa a happy country for all, regardless of race, colour, or creed...
...interrogated. Miss Moolah, as she prefers to be known, informed me that she was born in Georgia some twenty-one years ago, not, as the promoters would have it, in the "Zulu wilderness of the Transvaal...
Portuguese Africa consists chiefly of two massive areas of steamy plain and plateau (Angola and Mozambique) lying athwart tropical Africa's only east-west railroad. Mozambique lives off shipping to & from its landlocked neighbors, the Rhodesias, and South Africa's Transvaal...
Back in 1945 the late Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts phoned Calvin Stowe McLean, president of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines: "Is it true that there's uranium in our gold mines?" McLean told Smuts: "Yes, but it is of no commercial value." Said Smuts (who knew about the Manhattan Project): "I want to know how much there is and how we can get it out." From this conversation grew a plan to combine uranium production with gold production (both from the same ore). In his Atomic Energy Act, Smuts put a clamp (20 years in prison...