Southern Rhodesia: Pigs for Burumatare

Though Africa's hot-eyed nationalists wear European suits and talk knowingly of constitutional provisions and voting qualifications, they are well aware that many African tribesmen are still more impressed with black magic than political oratory. Last week an official pamphlet issued by the Southern Rhodesian government reported that some black leaders, unable to fire up their loyal constituents in the cause of black nationalism, have tried to fan antiwhite feeling by more primitive means.

They spread a story that a gang of whites with occult powers was kidnaping native men and women and turning them into pigs to feed the inhabitants...

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