Word: witwatersrand
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...strike climaxed years of only moderately successful drilling in the Oden-daalsrus vicinity, may-if the rest of the reef bears out the first core's promise-prove an old geological theory. Geologists have long guessed that Johannesburg's famed, rich Witwatersrand and its wealthy western extension are part of a prehistoric geological basin whose opposite curve cuts beneath the Odendaalsrus district and could produce a similar bonanza...
...foreigners on the Witwatersrand outnumbered Boers 85,000 to 65,000. They also owned half the land and nine-tenths of the assessable property. The more their power increased, the more President Kruger sought to milk them with taxes and curb them with limited franchise; the more he succeeded, the more vengeful they became. As one old Boer summed it up: ''There are two riders but only one horse. . . . The question is which rider is going to sit in front...
Back in South Africa, she taught history at Rhodes University College and the University of the Witwatersrand, got interested in the native cause. In South Africa's Negro elections in 1938 she had four male opponents, all cocksure that she could not crack native prejudice. But she stumped the kraals (village stockades), talked through an interpreter to primitive, skin-clad audiences...
...medical service has come to the aid of Farmer Theron. The faculty at the University of the Witwatersrand has agreed to pay a pound apiece for all live baboons...
...many years sporadic stories have come out of South Africa about a wild boy caught in the Koonap district in 1903 while traveling with a tribe of baboons. His captors were members of the Cape police. Last year Professor Raymond Arthur Dart of the University of Witwatersrand, discoverer of the celebrated fossil apeman named Australopithecus, queried the district police about the Baboon Boy. There was no written record of his finding, and the man who had caught him, Lance Sergeant Charles Holsen, had died; but another policeman who knew Holsen remembered his story, and this checked with the version previously...