Word: velde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last big migration ended in 1707. Proud, hardy men, seeking freedom, their claim to the country is older than that of the Bantus: the blacks, sweeping down from Africa's interior, came later. With their flocks and tented ox-wagons, and their Bible, the Boers trekked across the veld in search of the Promised Land. The isolated life of the veld stamped itself upon them and they did not notice the world change behind their back; the French and American revolutions passed them...
Vorster went to jail, and the Nazis lost the war, but in 1948 the Malanites had a chance to win South Africa's elections. Malan stumped the veld, urging South Africans to vote for segregation for the Negroes and separation from the British. "God," he announced, "is on our side...
African ex-servicemen, desperate for somewhere to live, had set up a great semi-permanent camp on the veld close to the city. Pathetically they called it Tobruk, after the place that had seen a great Allied defeat and victory. Scott joined them. But Scott found that life is not a simple fight of good against evil, white against black. The encampment of underprivileged families was run by vicious criminals of their own race. When he tried to hinder them, they burned down the chapel made of sacking that he served. When their leaders left with the communal funds...
...fortunate: weeks passed and the mornings were all blue and clear. Spring flowers covered the veld and the giant jacaranda tree bloomed. (page...
Under the Pillows. Johannesburg has always been a rowdy place. It began as a mining camp. But as the city has grown, throwing up tall buildings and sending a tide of suburban homes rolling across the surrounding veld, crime has grown with it. Today, the city's 350,000 whites fear its 500,000 natives; and this fear is reciprocated. Johannesburg is probably the tensest city in the world to live in. Altitude (5,750 feet) and glare (Johannesburg gets more sunshine than the Riviera) increase the tension. The dry air crackles with fear...