Word: zululand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Home to Home. From Agra to Zululand, guides and greeters are braced for the greatest overseas migration of Americans in peacetime history. Not counting the millions who will pour into Canada. Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 1,250,000 U.S. tourists will go abroad this year, spend a record $2 billion. By last week most ships and well-known overseas hotels were just about sold out for June, July and August; airline passengers had to take what they could...
Johannes Gerhardus Strydom (pronounced Straydom), 61, the new Prime Minister of South Africa, is a descendant of those Dutch settlers who 115 years ago fought their way across Zululand to the fertile Transvaal. Young Strydom grew up during the Boer War, and studied at the University of Stellenbosch, cradle of thwarted Boer aspirations. After taking his law degree at the University of Pretoria, he returned to his father's farm, where he raised ostriches. He improved a natural gift for histrionics by speech-making in front of mirrors. In 1929 he was elected to Parliament for the backveld district...
...people who really haven't the faintest idea what they want to study. Actually, this is quite natural, for the department is so broad that it can accommodate a wide variety of interests, and an honors candidate can do his thesis on just about any subject from aestheticism to Zululand...
...novel about Zululand in the form of a monologue by a homicidal maniac has the makings of a rather engaging talc. Unfortunately, when much of the story consists of "Chicken Every Sunday" family incidents, the musings of a madman are hardly the appropriate narrative device. Only the excellent and perceptive writing and the author's wide knowledge of the locale rescue the book fro the awkwardness of the plot...