Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their tortured history, the Afrikaners once again are responding to threats from without and within by going into the laager (literally, camp)?an expression from the days of the voortrekkers, South Africa's Boer pioneers, who would drive their ox wagons into a circle to fight off Zulu or Xhosa attackers. Vorster's campaign slogan is the same today as it was in the last election, in 1974: "He made South Africa safe. Keep it that way." That rallying cry, which is also the central theme of Afrikaner history, is one of self-preservation, and it has always worked...
...Zulu, spoken in South Africa and the surrounding countries, of great interest to phoneticists...
...also handle some of the Cushitic or Semitic languages of the Horn; a specialist in Swahili who can handle some other important eastern-central languages of Africa (e.g. Kikuyu); a specialist in Hausa who can handle some of the important languages of western Africa; and a specialist in Zulu, Soth-Tswana, or Shona who can handle some of the important languages of southern Africa...
...Zulu tongue, Ipi-Tombi means "Where are the girls?" On the New York opening night, the show not only brought on the girls but also offered an offstage line of black pickets. The cause for complaint is that the musical was conceived and produced by South African whites. The reiterated theme of the pickets is that anyone who supports the show lends his approval to genocide and infanticide. That is an exaggerated description of South African racial policy, however much one may deplore...
...Transkei is lucky, in a way, because it is divided into only two parts. The homeland of Boputha Tswana consists of 19 scattered parcels of land, though these will eventually be consolidated into six pieces. The Zulu homeland of KwaZulu was originally in 188 parcels, is now in 29, and will ultimately be consolidated to ten. Scoffs Buthelezi, who is also the Chief Minister of KwaZulu: "A state in ten separate pieces? The very notion is nonsensical." Buthelezi has flatly refused independence for KwaZulu, explaining: "It is meaningless political freedom combined with effective economic slavery." Adds Hudson Ntsanwisi, Chief Minister...