Word: zulus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Standing in a dusty street one day last week, he recalled with a mixture of admiration and apprehension the legendary days of the 19th century wars against the whites by South Africa's largest and fiercest tribe (see box below). This time, however, the target of the angry Zulus in Soweto was the black militants-the student leaders and other activists who were leading a three-day boycott to prevent Soweto's 250,000-member black labor force from going to work in Johannesburg, 15 miles away...
...city of terror. Forming an extended battle line in the manner of the Zulu warriors of old, they surged through the township chanting "Bulala! Bulala!" (Kill! Kill!). Thousands of blacks, particularly the young, attempted to flee. Many camped out in front of police stations seeking protection against the marauding Zulus. An African priest described how a 16-year-old schoolboy was chased into his church by a band of Zulus who dragged the boy from the priest's arms and clubbed him to death. Before the fighting was over, 35 had been killed and perhaps 200 injured...
Avenged Grievances. Suddenly the battle of Soweto was transformed from a black-white conflict into a fight between blacks-and government officials were not at all displeased. Indeed there were some charges that they helped provoke the change. Several black reporters said they heard police officers exhorting Zulus to "go out and kill" their enemies, but one police chief branded this "an infamous lie." At the least, some Soweto residents said, the police watched from their antiriot Hippo vehicles without taking action as the Zulu warriors scoured the streets and burst into homes in search of what they called "cheeky...
...hijacked and burned out by black youths at the beginning of the Soweto disturbances in June. Last week, fearful of breaking the boycott, she kept her remaining taxis at home. But at midweek a youth, fleeing a Zulu gang, ran through the garden of her home. The enraged Zulus, thinking she had given him refuge, kicked down her front door, smashed her furniture and windows, and then hacked and smashed her two cabs parked outside. "This is the end," she said. "Between the Zulu mobs, the students, the tsotsis [hoodlums] and the police, who never come to help us, there...
...been turned over. Even if it were, black chiefs say, the total area would still be inadequate. Vorster claims that he cannot grant more land because the 1936 act ties his hands. "Nonsense," retorts Gatsha Buthelezi, 45, chief minister for the country's 4,250,000 Zulus. "Parliament made that law in 1936, and it can unmake...