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Word: schuur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the waiting was over, but some of the hysteria lingered on. Established at last in the official Capetown residence Groote Schuur (Big Barn), bequeathed in his will to South Africa's Prime Ministers by Anglophile Cecil Rhodes, Anglophobe Malan had named a cabinet to match the opposition's worst fears: not a single representative of South Africa's English-speaking groups. Several of the new ministers, like Malan himself, belonged to the fanatically nationalist Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Sentinel) and Broederbond organizations, whose members had been banned from state employment during the war by Prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: To Relieve the People | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Concealed Weapon. In Cape Town, South Africa, a patient at the Groote Schuur General Hospital complained of a stomachache, felt better after the removal of a ten-inch knife which he guessed had been there ever since a brawl three years before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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