Word: transvaal
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Chin in Palm. On the farms of the Transvaal, bearded Afrikaner patriarchs, who still rule their Bantu field hands with a Bible in one hand and a rawhide sjambok whip in the other, were talking mostly of wool and cattle prices-and of their trip to Pretoria last...
Blue & Orange. South Africa has three capitals, one each in three of the four separate states that joined together in 1910. The administrative capital is Pretoria, a city of wide avenues and blue jacaranda blossoms in the onetime Boer Republic of the Transvaal. The Supreme Court is located in Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State. Parliament meets in Cape Town, oldest city in the republic and home of most of its 1,747,000 "Coloreds" (mulattoes), who once enjoyed almost the same rights and privileges as the whites...
Against the surreal landscapes of Mozambique, Bechuanaland and Transvaal, Director Wilde unfolds this simple tale with elemental force, and acts it accordingly. His natives are not the usual faceless blacks but human beings whose capacity for violence the hero quickly matches. In the script, sparely written by Clint Johnston and Don Peters, a few scraps of English dialogue and African dialect count for less than the surprise of a snapping twig or the insistent throb of drums, injected into the bloodstream of the film like so many shots of adrenaline. Without insulting modern Africa, Naked Prey writes the wild poetry...
...copper, the mineral in shortest supply, the Japanese have signed long-term contracts for the output of mines in Canada, the Philippines, Bolivia. Australia and the Transvaal of South Africa, are now guaranteed shipments of 122,600 tons annually...
...city has enjoyed permanent legal residence there and could not normally be "endorsed out." The new bill abolishes that right, and a man who has spent his life as a clerk in a Cape Town chemist's shop could end up swinging a pick in a Transvaal gold mine. Moreover, African wives and children may follow their breadwinner only if the government finds it expedient, and many native men will be forced to live alone...