Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Just like the old days," muttered a grizzled Zulu elder in Johannesburg's Soweto. Standing in a dusty street one day last week, he recalled with a mixture of admiration and apprehension the legendary days of the 19th century wars against the whites by South Africa's largest and fiercest tribe (see box below). This time, however, the target of the angry Zulus in Soweto was the black militants-the student leaders and other activists who were leading a three-day boycott to prevent Soweto's 250,000-member black labor force from going to work...
...days and nights last week, Zulu impis (war parties), armed with spears, sticks, knives and knobkerries, the traditional Zulu clubs, were on the warpath once again, turning Soweto (pop. 1 million) into a city of terror. Forming an extended battle line in the manner of the Zulu warriors of old, they surged through the township chanting "Bulala! Bulala!" (Kill! Kill!). Thousands of blacks, particularly the young, attempted to flee. Many camped out in front of police stations seeking protection against the marauding Zulus. An African priest described how a 16-year-old schoolboy was chased into his church...
...handsome woman with big brown eyes, hair closely cropped and a straw hat on top of a patterned scarf. There are two long earrings in each ear, and one nostril is pierced. Five years ago, to cast off her middle-class upbringing, she outfitted herself with Zulu names. Ntozake literally means "She who comes with her own thing," and Shange means "One who walks like a lion." She was born Paulette Williams, and "named after my father because he wanted a boy." Her father is a wealthy surgeon in Lawrenceville, N.J., her mother a psychiatric social worker. They gave...
...enable our children to learn something," said one Soweto council member. "We have met the Afrikaans requirement by using it to teach such subjects as gardening, where the important thing is to show students what to do, not tell them. In other subjects, the teachers instruct first in Zulu, then spout Afrikaans while the students copy down what they've heard in Zulu. The rule is Afrikaner nationalism gone berserk...
Hardly the sort of licentious fare that would inflame Zulu houseboys to run up stairs and rape madame, as former Minister of Posts and Telegraph Albert Hertzog used to warn. Most of the country's 18 million blacks, in fact, were unable to see the programs because they live in urban slums and rural townships without electricity. One African, who won a television set in a contest last year, was given a portable generator to operate it. After weeks of watching the test transmissions, he decided to sell the TV and keep the generator. Many whites, on the other...