Word: transvaal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unbelievable religious persecution!" cried the Archbishop of Cape Town. Most Reverend Joost de Blank, and the chief rabbi of the Transvaal, L. I. Rabinowitz, appealed to the government to revoke the deportation order...
...from rumpled Paul O. Sauer, 62, Minister of Lands and leader of the Assembly, who has presided over the Cabinet in place of the wounded Prime Minister. Sauer comes from the Cape area, whose relatively sophisticated businessmen and traders have long wrangled with the intolerant Nationalists of the Transvaal. Last week Sauer stood up in his home constituency of Humansdorp and firmly declared that the "old book" of South African history was closed at Sharpeville. He called for the creation of "a new spirit that must restore overseas faith-both white and nonwhite-in South Africa." The blacks, said Sauer...
...50th anniversary of South African nationhood. "We shall not be killed!" he shouted to the thousands of whites in the grandstand. "We shall fight for our existence, and we shall survive." He took his seat beside his wife Betsie, not noticing David Pratt, a wispy, 54-year-old Transvaal farmer in green tweeds, who clambered briskly up the concrete steps behind the Prime Minister, flashing his exposition-committee-man's lapel badge to get past the husky detectives...
...diggers were hampered by water, rising chest-high at the rock face. Grimly, nine foremen ordered the rescue teams out for fear they, too, might be trapped if the water-weakened shaft walls collapsed. Now the only hope was a special high-speed drill rushed down from the northern Transvaal 300 miles away to punch a 13-in. air and food hole straight down from the surface to the entombed men. But the drill hit solid rock 80 feet down, slowing the job. And as torrential rains began to fall, threatening new cave-ins, no one but the desperate families...