mampoer

Published by Mampoer Books of South Africa, Nixon's book details how the apartheid state invested more than $100m over 50 years in an attempt to convince Americans that South Africa was not a racist state that practised an inhuman system of racial segregation.

Here the massacre continues with the hanging of Chief Mampoer in 1885--with the survivors held in Pretoria's state prison.

In die verdere veertien verhale in die bundel word kennis gemaak met 'n groot verskeidenheid kansvatters, grootpraters, dromers en doeners en hulle wedervarings en uitvindings, soos die wonder-geneesmiddel wat alle kwale genees, Poon die wonderperd wat met kunsbene en al in die July beland, die sterk mampoer uit 'n treinboiler, 'n slim beesboer wat stukkies vleis uit sy beeste oes, die diepste gat wat nog in die Kalahari geboor is, die groot droogte en die gepekelde Afrikanerbeeste, en 'n listige horrelpoot-jakkals.

"Mampoer in die Stryd om die Bapedi-troon: Die Mapoch Qorlog 1882-1883." Historiese Studies 3(October-December):3-4.

[73] Many also reasoned that if a constable would sell them a rifle for a jug of mampoer or home made spirits, what would he give for an ox or mule offered by an African peasant.