Word: transvaal
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...ways. When he was in Cambridge, England, in 1949, he suggested to Professor de Burgh Daly that they experiment with live giraffes. Daly said, "Bring your own giraffe." This would have been too expensive, so last year Dr. Goetz assembled a veldworthy laboratory and took it to the northeastern Transvaal, which teems with giraffes...
...Makapan Valley in South Africa (TIME, Jan. 17). As the Makapan River cut its valley during a million years, it formed a series of limestone caves that were inhabited successively by all manner of men and beasts. In some of the lowest layers, C. K. Brain of the Transvaal Museum found smallish stones that had been chipped into crude tools. Geological studies hinted that this primitive "pebble culture" might date from as much as 750,000 years...
Strydom's bill provides for eight new Senators to be nominated by Strydom's government, 33 more to be chosen by the majority parties in Transvaal and Cape Province. Since the Boer Nationalists are in power in both big provinces, the bill would give the Strydom government a clear two-thirds majority in a joint session of Parliament-enough to override South Africa's constitution. Strydom's first objective is to disenfranchise the 45,000 mixed-blood folk who still have votes in South Africa, but once he has the power, many South Africans fear that...
Medical student Bryer has played for the Oxford University Greyhounds; Business student Lindsay played for the University of Cape Town; and Chalsty represented Transvaal, runners-up last year in the South African inter-provincial championships...
Professor Dart's new finds came from a cave whose mouth is now 160 ft. above the Makapan River in the Transvaal. The cave's original floor is travertine rock, on which lies more than 50 ft. of sedimentary material. In one of the layers, close to the floor, are bones of Australopithecus prometheus, a small, spry primate whom Professor Dart considers at least semi-human. Prometheus, he says, ate baboons, may have stood upright and may have possessed fire. On the other hand, apparently, he did not know how to make stone tools or weapons...