Word: zulus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Youth gangs are the only form of organized resistance left in the ghetto," Scott said. He alleged that the CIA had decimated the large memberships of Chicago's Black P. Stone Nation and Philadelphia's Zulus "because they have fought slave labor...
...week, many of the Durban strikers were returning to work, but their protest had left its mark on the country. As the Rand Daily Mail observed: "The Zulus have brought home to employers that they can no longer get away with appallingly low wages...
...what I'm saying? I was raised by Hottentots and Zulus! I couldn't even contemplate drinking a glass of milk without giving serious offense to God Almighty. Imagine then what my conscience gave me for all that jerking...
...that point, the coronation ceremony was still incomplete, since it signified primarily a title conferred by the white government. To complete the crowning in their own way, the Zulus held another celebration, attended by 50,000 tribesmen and only two whites -a government administrator and an expert on their history and culture. For that weekend-long occasion, 105 oxen, 50 antelopes, seven buffaloes and 20 wildebeests were slaughtered and eaten, washed down with thousands of gallons of tshwala, a native beer...
Evolution. In crowning a king, the Zulus achieved a significant milestone on their way to becoming a nation again. Ironically, the South African government's policy of apartheid or "separate development" has led to a surge of tribal pride among the 4,000,000 Zulus, who account for nearly a quarter of South Africa's black population. The semi-autonomous Bantustans being set up by the government as a means of keeping blacks segregated in their own homelands, have given that pride political expression...