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...Germany was producing 125,000 bbl. of synthetic fuel a day at 25 plants. After the war, a South African entrepreneur called "Slip" Menell bought the South African rights to Fischer-Tropsch, and in 1950 the new white supremacist Nationalist Party government formed Sasol--an acronym for Suid-Afrikaanse Steenkool en Olie (South African Coal and Oil)--to produce gasoline from South Africa's vast coal deposits...
...Samuel P. Huntington, "Whatever has gone wrong with reform?" Die Suid-Afrikaan, 8, Winter 1986, p. 19-22. Further quotes from this article will be referenced by page numbers...
Some of his colleagues said the sudden announcement was consistent with Whitlock's general aversion to publicity. Suid Blomquist: "He's still the B-24 pilot who likes got up and fly around, and to hell with ceremony...
Arthur H. Parker, vice-president of Standish, Ayer and Wood, suid yesterday, "We were guided by the investment policy of Hampshire College, as we will be in the future...
...there are economic advantages in staying in the Commonwealth), but the Union Jack is no longer flown, and God Save the Queen is no longer South Africa's anthem. In his honor South Africa's state radio played solemn music and the official anthem, Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice of South Africa...