Word: zululand
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Because South Africa has, at the latest count, only 5,000 black university graduates, IBM has been unable to find many qualified applicants for technical jobs. Hence the company last year donated $175,000 and the services of a senior manager to the University of Zululand to develop courses in data processing and systems analysis...
Quebec Iron and Titanium Corp., which is owned by Kennecott Copper and Gulf & Western, has persuaded its four South African partners to adopt the Sullivan Code in their new mining venture in Zululand. Boasts Q.I.T. President Pierce McCreary: "We have been a very positive force in South Africa...
...Great Trek of the Boers north from Capetown in 1847. She married James Powers, whose intimate knowledge of South Africa's veldts and wildlife has been inherited by Player. In fact, Player's brother Ian was chief game conservator of the Hluhluwe and Umfolozi game reserves in Zululand...
...Shaka's successors could not hang onto it. First the Boers, then the British, gained control of Zulu territories. In 1879, after numerous disputes, the British army invaded Zululand. The Zulus fought back ferociously, and at the Battle of Isandhlwana some 10,000 Zulus wiped out 1,300 British and native soldiers in hand-to-hand fighting. The British, however, had the Gatling gun. They sacked the Zulu capital of Ulundi and divided the fallen empire into 13 quarreling kingdoms...
...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...