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Ever since Boer President "Oom Paul" Kruger first set them up on the slopes of the Wolkberg in 1883, the Mamatola tribesmen of the northeastern Transvaal have cultivated their sunny and windswept land in peace and contentment. Last week a convoy of 23 trucks dispatched by South Africa's Native Affairs Minister Hendrik Verwoerd rumbled up the mountain to carry the 1,200-odd Mamatola off to a new home, Metz, in a dank and inhospitable valley 30 miles to the east. The stated reason: the Mamatola's outmoded farming methods were ruining the land...
...come to sing," announced a spokesman. Mrs. Strydom invited the crowd inside, ordered the kitchen blacks to prepare coffee and Boerebiskuit (Afrikaans for shortbread) for all. As the Prime Minister came into the hall a moment later, the visitors broke into old Boer war songs-the Volksliederen of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Then the Senate's only woman member, Mrs. M.D.J. Koster, spoke her thanks to the white race's savior: "Every white woman and every white mother thanks you from the depths of her heart." Deeply moved, Strydom wiped a tear from his cheek...
EPISODE IN THE TRANSVAAL, by Harry Bloom (295 pp.; Doubleday; $3.95), is an authentic novel about South Africa, in which a self-righteous white superintendent snaps his bureaucratic whip once too often in a native "location." Johannesburg Lawyer-Novelist Harry Bloom, who jars the conscience by way of the solar plexus, all but makes audible the "roar of the lion" in 12,000 black throats...
Three of the four veterans expected to be on the field this Saturday are from the Union of South Africa. Business student Martin Lindsay is back at his old position of wing forward, but Lionel Bryer and John Chaisty, who in 1954 were playing for Oxford University and Transvaal Province respectively, may be starting in unaccustomed roles...
...police fanfare, no big Communist plot to overthrow the government was revealed. Some of the evidence did show, however, that many nonwhites, deprived of moderate leadership by constant government harassment and restrictive laws, were turning more and more to extremism. At the Indian Congress headquarters in the Transvaal, a huge portrait of Red China's Mao Tse-tung greeted the police...