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...WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Filmed at the Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, "Rhino" recounts the capture of two rare white rhinos and other veld-roaming wild beasts in danger of extinction. Harry Guardino, Shirley Eaton and Robert Gulp star...
Monday, September 11 COWBOY IN AFRICA (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). North America is getting so crowded with TV series that Chuck Connors has moved to a game ranch in Africa for this new veld-West show. Premiere...
...springbok range the high savanna of Kruger National Park in the northeast. Ostrich farms dot the harsh, baked landscape beneath the kopjes (flat-topped hills) of the Great Karroo, where two centuries ago Dutch trekboers lived in small nomadic communi ties. South of the Kalahari Desert is the high veld, a great, green, grassy plateau where cattle and sheep graze in endless herds. On the Indian Ocean's shore lie the lovely rolling hills of Natal, whose citizens claim the soil is so rich that "if you throw seeds into your garden when...
Unlike the Hottentots and Bushmen, the Bantu were a powerful, well-organized society, experienced in the art of warfare. But the whites broke the back of their resistance at the battle of Blood River, and went on to establish their farms in the high veld...
...High Veld are the tobacco ranches, the major cities, and most of the country's wealth. Whoever controls that high land controls the destiny of the country, and whoever fails to control that plateau becomes a pauper. All other inequities in Rhoddesia result from the unequal distribution of land--the Europeans on the rich land and the Africans on the poor...