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...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...
...Zulu, Friday and Saturday...
Bruno Sammartino flattening Pedro Morales with a flying elbow. The Mighty Zulu punishing Man Mountain Mike with a bone-crunching knuckle headlock. Mention wrestling, and that is what comes to mind for most Americans. Not for the citizens of Stillwater, Okla. For them, wrestling offers far, far more than the dubious diversion of watching overweight meatballs belting each other in mock mortal combat. Reason: Stillwater is the home of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the most successful team in college wrestling...