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...wife to take a temporary job as a domestic servant, and one night he stays with her in her quarters. The police break in and carry him off to jail as a trespasser. Home a few days later, Zachariah finds his wife dead-murdered by a tsotsi (gangster, Zulu style), who strangled her when she refused to lift her skirts...
...swinging sjamboks (leather whips) and grabbing "intimidators" who, according to Justice Minister François Erasmus, "stood at street corners giving certain signs" to keep Africans from going to work. Near Durban, African stay-at-homes stoned and beat other natives returning from work in town. Black police carrying Zulu-style shields and assagais (short spears), moved in, killing four and wounding...
...strongest Christian influences in Africa is a 50-year-old Zulu with a pencil-line mustache and horn-rimmed spectacles who has a knack of persuading criminals to turn in their weapons-and often themselves. Wearing a dark business suit, the Rev. Nicholas Bhengu stands on a packing-case platform and says quietly in Zulu: "Ubugekengu abukhokheli lutho [Crime does not pay]."* There is a movement in the crowd, especially among the young toughs in ducktail haircuts, dungarees and safari jackets. "Nike-lani izikhali zenu nani ku Nkulunkulu [Surrender your arms and yourself to God]," he continues, and a pile...
...Spirit of God. Evangelist Bhengu is the grandson of a Zulu chief. His father became an evangelist at the Lutheran Mission station at Eshowe, Zululand, and young Nicholas went to school there, then to the Roman Catholic Institute at Eshowe for his secondary education, finally to a missionary school near Kimberley, where he also took an evening course that proved to be inspired by Communism. For a while Bhengu was attracted to Marxism, but by the time he was 20 he had returned to Christianity, was ordained in 1936 and became a missionary of the Assemblies of God, a pentecostal...
...odor rises over the pleasant resort city of Durban on the Indian Ocean. It comes usually from the tin-shanty slum of Cato Manor to the west, where, ever since the Union government forbade blacks to drink anything alcoholic other than the watery government beer served in municipal bars, Zulu women have been brewing a crude moonshine of their own. A high-power popskull made of methylated spirits, carbide, potato peels or just about anything else that will ferment, this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source of income for the "Shebeen Queens" who make...