Word: windhoek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spilled Beer. The Windhoek riot was the sixth major one to erupt in Union territory this year, and like all the others, it was the direct result of the whites' measures to keep the blacks in their place. A few miles outside Windhoek, the government is completing a $5,000,000 "location" for the capital's 16,000 blacks. Though the austere new houses are quite an improvement over the old tin shanties, they not only cost eleven times as much to rent, for people whose pay ranges from $3 to $10 a month, but are regarded...
...General Assembly called on it to begin talks to put South West Africa under the U.N. The Union was piously proclaiming that it was just this kind of "interference" that was to blame for the bloody outbursts that had just been quelled in the South West Africa capital of Windhoek...
...tension in Windhoek mounted, a beer-hall picket knocked over a can of malt beer that had just been bought by a woman customer. The woman called the police. Within minutes, police and an angry crowd of several thousand were scuffling. The blacks set the beer hall on fire, stormed the city jail, and freed all the prisoners. Some even dared the soldiers and police to shoot them, taunted, "You are too frightened by the United Nations." The soldiers and police obliged: by the end of the day, twelve Africans had been shot to death...
Convinced that they already had a perfectly clear understanding of South Africa's aspirations, nine African nations sent off a letter to U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold protesting against the "shooting and killing" at Windhoek and sharply reminding the world that after all, South West Africa has "an international status...
...dreary beerhalls of Windhoek, capital of South-West Africa, the Hochs! swelled loud and heady last week. The German community, 13,000 strong, was celebrating victory-and revenge-in the first vote of the former German colony as part of the Union of South Africa. The Germans had swung the election-all six House of Assembly seats, 16 of 18 local legislative assembly seats. Their victory in South-West Africa gave a clear majority in South Africa's Parliament to the anti-British, pro-Boer, white-supremacy government of Prime Minister Daniel Malan...