Word: velde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every spring the ruggers build up a team which is more than capable of holding its own among Eastern competition, and then everyone graduates, goes to play football, or treks back to the veld. And every autumn a motley assortment recruited from all corners of the University grimly tries to salvage a few wins from the fall schedule...
...Prime Minister Johannes G. Strydom. Some were white, some were brown, most were black. Many wore the green-black-and-gold colors of the African National Congress, and many wore tribal regalia; many had traveled hundreds of miles by rickety bus across South Africa's dust-swept veld to get there, lunch baskets in their hands and babies strapped to their backs. All the women bore personal petitions to Strydom. Focus of their protest: the government's latest decree that African women as well as men must now carry identification passes at all times...
...trespasses, but a meting-out predating the New Testament. Joseph has made of himself a human albatross, and he and the ones who have wronged him will hang together to the end. Fletcher, the white man, is left in a hysteria of frustration, "dancing there, solitary in the veld, a grotesque little figure, capering under a blazing...
White Hunter Buncher is scarcely a 20th century Natty Bumppo. When an accustomed signpost is missing along the well-rutted safari track, he gets lost and drives the party a whole day's journey off course into the veld. As drawn by Tiny, the White Hunter barely has brains enough to come in out of the rain. ("Bit of a mist, what?") With the constant physical discomforts and the incessant comic relief of The Nylon Safari, it sometimes seems that the grandeur and excitement of Africa itself rarely caught Tiny Cloete's eye. The Cloetes' closest brush...
...lonely veld...