Word: transvaal
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...under way among whites fleeing African territories being taken over by black nationalists; a bearded Afrikaner who had been farming in Kenya, which won its freedom last month, crossed back into his homeland in his ten-year-old Chevrolet, jumped out, and literally knelt down and kissed the red Transvaal dust. So many whites have migrated from the neighboring white-dominated Central African Federation, which was dissolved last New Year's Eve, that hundreds of such "refugees" are living in house trailers in South African cities. During the last three weeks of 1963, 3,000 more of them poured...
...smaller but scarcely less luxurious scale are two new British ships, Union-Castle's 33,500-ton Transvaal Castle, which will run between Southampton and South Africa, and P. & O. Orient's 45,000-ton Canberra, which will ply a leisurely looping route from Vancouver to California to Australia, Singapore and Ceylon, on through the Suez Canal and Mediterranean to Britain, with many stops along the way. The Transvaal Castle is strictly one class, fixes its rates ($392 to $2,324) according to size and location of the cabins. The Canberra has first and tourist classes...
Died. David Beresford Pratt, 54, wealthy, English-born Transvaal farmer and would-be assassin who in April 1960 fired two bullets into the head of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd (who recovered), was later declared by a court to be "unfit" to stand trial; by his own hand (strangulation with a bed sheet); in a Bloemfontein, South Africa, mental institution...
Leached out of a novel custom-written for the studio by Stuart Cloete, the story begins in 1837, when small parties of hardy Boers were setting out on the great trek from Cape Colony to the Transvaal, a thousand miles to the north. The hero (Stuart Whitman), an N.C.O. in the British cavalry and an s.o.b. in everybody's book, deserts with two buddies (Ken Scott, Rafer Johnson) and hitches a ride to the interior with a wagon train of Dutch Voortrekkers...
...whose representatives backed it. Later the Dutch Reformed Churches found it necessary to clarify their stand. The smallest of the three churches-Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk with over 200,000 members-rejected the resolution and stood pat for total segregation. The two largest-the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerks of Cape and Transvaal, with a combined membership of more than 1,200,000-insisted as before that "a policy of differentiation can be defended from the Christian point of view," but then it cautiously suggested that black Africans who are permanent dwellers in white areas should be granted a share in government...