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...discovery, unless "as many Afrikaners say, people of mixed blood are slow thinkers." When a black Johannesburg gardener asked a white what he thought about the alleged black blood in his background, the Afrikaner promptly replied, "That's all right, as long as it was the best blood, Zulu blood." But Cape Colored Poet Adam Small offered the last word on Hattingh's research: "It's nothing new. Colored, white or black, all blood...
There are now more than 4,450 shortwave frequencies being broadcast around the world in 148 languages-including Farsi, Zulu, Amharic and Kiswahili. Most popular of all is English, which is sent out on more than 1,000 frequencies. Even with unsophisticated sets, Americans can pick up as many as 50 English-language broadcasts; more expensive radios can tune in the entire world. In the past ten years something like 18 million short-wave sets have been sold in the U.S. alone. One Manhattan writer, who owns an inexpensive Sony ($115), has made the BBC's morning news...
...weeklies published in Afrikaanin--the language of the white rule--are the voices of the Nationalist Party, the minority which gained control of the government in 1948 and instituted apartheid. The country also has 16 English-language dailies and 15 weeklies, two Black publications in English, and one in Zulu. With one exception, these papers are anti-government...
...groups have been hostile since the Ndebele, an offshoot of the Zulu, conquered the Shona during the 19th century...
This systematic disinheritance has been bitterly denounced by Pretoria's critics at home and abroad. Says Zulu Chief Minister Gatsha Buthelezi, who adamantly opposes independence for his native Kwazulu: "We are not prepared to be a participant in this great political confidence trick. We are still South Africans and we will stay that way until we can share in the political decision-making and economic wealth of this great country...