Word: zulus
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...chiropractors, chefs and electricians-men and women, from teenagers to 80-year-olds-compete in honor of some milestone in military history: last week it was the German surrender in 1945. Among those waiting to shoot or scoring at the targets, you'll hear talk about how 19th-century Zulus thought bullets flew like spears and so aimed their rifles too high, why creeping artillery barrages didn't work in the First World War, whether it was Kokoda or the Battle of the Coral Sea that saved Australia from the Japanese. Not all the members think about this stuff...
...Zulus, the Xhosas and others: self-rule taking into account the diversity of identities. America is the only exception where the melting pot works. In the rest of the world, nation-states that have clear majorities of one ethnic group within the country have been the pattern. So I say separate development was morally justifiable if you look at it as a constitutional option. When apartheid started, the colonial powers weren't worried about black political rights at all. In America racial discrimination was thriving. MANDELA: The government did not want any form of demonstration from blacks, no matter...
...five people died in the township of Soweto, as militants fought with migrant workers who refused to observe a "black Christmas" boycott called by the militants to honor those who had died since the violence began in September 1984. In Natal province, 58 blacks were killed when 2,000 Zulus and 3,000 members of the Pondo tribe, armed with spears, shields, clubs and shotguns, clashed in a Christmas Day battle sparked by tribal and political rivalries...
...bullets against mobs of rampaging youths who burned shops and schools. In KwaMashu, a gang attacked the home of a black policeman and set it ablaze. To frightened Indians, the scene was all too reminiscent of the riots of 1949, when 142 Indians lost their lives in clashes with Zulus...
Despite his acceptance of the need for compromise, Buthelezi is by no means Pretoria's pawn. He has threatened force if necessary to resist the white government's efforts to grant KwaZulu "independence," a move that would deprive the Zulus of their South African citizenship as well as of a nationwide political role. In 1981 he refused a government offer to build an administration building for KwaZulu in Ulundi, the capital, fearing that acceptance would indebt him to Pretoria. Instead, the homeland saved $18 million from tax revenues and constructed a building adorned with murals and carved wooden doors that...