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Blood River makes no attempt to whitewash the repressive regimes in Pretoria. But it is one of the few volumes that attempt to understand the descendants of settlers who were themselves the despised and disenfranchised people of the veld. American Journalist Barbara Villet, whose photographer husband grew up in a suburb of Cape Town, starts her journey in modern South Africa, then begins "trekking away from time" back to the 17th century, when a group of Dutch Calvinists sets out for Cape Town. The tiny white minority see themselves as a new chosen people, driven by religious fervor and economic...
...irony that collectors who would never dream of having a real construction worker in their living room will pay up to $35,000 to display the fiber-glass replica of one by Hanson: these effigies have the same relationship to social reality as a stuffed rhino does to the veld...
...inertial navigator the Taiwanese engineers are designing is only useful for airplanes and ships, Wallace Van Der Veld, the program's administrator, said Monday, but he added that the technology the engineers were learning at MIT could have military applications...
HUGH MASEKELA IS ALIVE AND WELL AT THE WHISKEY (Universal City). The doughty South African expatriate trumpeter mixes jazz and rock with a generous quotient of his native folk music. Vistas of the veld spill out of his trumpet in Mra and from his scratchy singing voice in Ha Lese Le Di Khanna, a cattle-herding song. Little Miss Sweetness leans on the rock side. The most infectious track is Up Up and Away, which Masekela rescues from the TWA commercial and instills with a zestful buoyancy...
...Greek navy. Jersey's 65,000 service stations, bearing such names as Esso, Enco and Humble (the New Jersey company's exclusive right to the Esso name is presently being fought out in Federal courts), are scattered everywhere around the world, from U.S. turnpikes to the African veld to the guerrilla-infested rural roads of Viet Nam. Jersey companies turn out 4,627,-000 barrels of petroleum products daily, sell one of every seven gallons of fuel marketed in the free world...