Word: transvaal
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...members belong to the secret Afrikaner Broederbond, launched an anti-Negro, anti-Jewish campaign. The Natives' Representative Council was summarily abolished. Appropriations for Bantu housing were slashed; native slums proliferated, breeding crime and misery. To cut down the number of opposition voters, Malan coolly disenfranchised the Natal and Transvaal Indians...
...South used to be the main source of the world's supply of fiction plots about the clash of white and Negro; in the last dozen years, South African novelists have moved into the market. The latest is Transvaal-born Daphne Rooke, 37. Her unassuming little novel, Mittee, is rooted in the well-worn situation of the interracial triangle, but it has two kinds of welcome freshness...
...slept with Paul before the marriage and does so afterward, whenever he turns wretchedly from Mittee's coldness. The triangle soon leads to a tangle of bitterness, with Selina and Mittee still bound by childhood memories and, at the end, suffering together when the English invade the Transvaal...
Like U.S. Presidents before F.D.R., the rain queens who rule over the Lovedu tribesmen in Africa's northern Transvaal are expected voluntarily to limit their own terms of office. When a rain queen's powers are on the wane (at the age of 60 or thereabouts), tradition calls for her to retire into the hills and quaff a poison compounded of crocodile entrails. This was the way it was in the days of Mujaji I and in the days of Mujaji II (the light-skinned queen who served as a model for H. Rider Haggard...
...work his usual 16 hours a day, still sit firmly in the chairmanship of his Anglo American Corp. of South Africa, Ltd., the master holding company through which he has built an economic pyramid of more than 200 companies worth more than $2.5 billion. They control 15% of the Transvaal's gold production, 43% of its coal, 50% of its explosives, 9% of the world's copper, and a bewildering hodgepodge of enterprises ranging from breakfast foods to railways...