Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beloved Country (London Films; Lopert), Alan Paton's eloquent 1948 novel about South African race relations, after being translated into everything from Zulu to Broadwayese, now comes to the screen. The cinemadaptation was done by Author Paton* and the picture is largely faithful to the original...
Heedless of South African law, which states clearly that mingling of white and black persons is a criminal offense, light-skinned sailormen, heavy with pocket money, paraded the streets with Zulu-dark girls, while Cape Town's white Portuguese chatted happily in their mother tongue with handsome, mahogany-brown Brazilians. Local police tried desperately to figure out which were black, which were white and which in-betweens, finally gave up. Brazilian Captain Pedro Paulo de Aranjo Suzano was no help at all. Said he: "They are all Brazilians...
...eight-month-old South African lion cub named Chaka (after the early 19th Century Zulu tyrant) was put aboard a plane in Johannesburg, headed for Moscow as a gift from the Russian consulate to Joseph Stalin...
When the Turners were near the breaking point, a new houseboy, Moses, came on the scene. He was a Zulu. Across the rigidly drawn race barrier, Mary Turner could see that he was everything her husband wasn't. Moses had integrity, stubborn endurance and physical magnificence. In self-defense, she took to nagging him for minor mistakes. Mary was trying to build up a sense of his inferiority in her own mind and his. It didn't work out that way. The story reaches its logical and violent conclusion with Dick Turner gone mad, Mary Turner lying murdered...
...story follows the fortunes of two English families living on the Zulu veld in South Africa. The Elliots had fled scandal in England; Mrs. Ashburn had brought her family in abortive search of a fortune in cotton. They eke out a poor existence from the wilderness, contending with drought, fever, and the whims of the Zulus, Mrs. Ashburn even resorts to hatching python eggs for spare cash...