Word: zululand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep your mouth shut," her brother advised her, voicing the wisdom of the age. At 22 she married a horsy, socially acceptable Irishman named Willie O'Shea, known chiefly for his velvet jackets and his passion for get-rich-quick schemes-sulfur mines in Spain, railroad lines in Zululand. Katharine settled down to the role of conformist motherhood. But one day in 1880, when she was 35 and walking on the downs near Brighton, she asked herself in the classic fashion: "Why should I be supposed to have no other interests than Willie and my children?" By then...
...Zululand Territorial Authority, as yet nothing more than a tribal council, is scheduled to be upgraded to a legislative council and to be chosen by general election some time in 1972. It will then have constitutional power over local matters of justice, finance, education and agriculture, though Pretoria will still retain control of defense, foreign affairs and police. Said Botha to Prince Zwelithini last week: "It can be expected that your reign will see a constitutional evolution of your Zulu nation to a fully fledged self-governing and independent nation...
...familiarity has not always bred respect, at least it has helped to reduce racial fears. On a national level, the country's black politicians have been concentrating on achieving black power in the Bantustans, a goal acceptable to the Afrikaners. Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, 42, chief minister of Zululand, last month told white students at Stellenbosch University that "if the majority of whites have now decided to set up blacks in separate states, we have no means to resist it, even if we wanted to." But, he declared, "it must be clear that we do not expect sham self-government...
...State Department has already protested on behalf of Americans who are being expelled, including three Methodist missionaries and a Roman Catholic priest. But deportation is only one of the government tactics. Last week, South Africa's leading black clergyman, the Right Rev. Alpheus Zulu, Anglican Bishop of Zululand, was arrested at a church center outside Johannesburg and questioned at a police station for hours. He was finally charged with failure to have with him the passbook required of all blacks, but refused to pay a $7 fine and instead demanded the right to appear in court. Bishop Zulu...