' 'What you need, Frikkie. Unfortunately, communications collapsed and no one knew who was in charge. When they reached Cape Town the only accommodation they could find was in a collection of three-story hovels originally designed as a transit camp for the military. All that day they watched English troops hustling back and forth, 'In rather a panic,' De Groot said.
At one o'clock in the morning three full regiments of Zulu warriors stormed forth in a surprise attack and reached the sleeping wagons and tents before anyone could sound an alarm. ' It was souZ advice, for Smuts, perhaps the keenest brain that South Africa had ever produced, One morning he was stopped by police on Eloff Street, Johannesburg's glitter- ing shopping avenue, and his documents were demanded: 'I see you haven't paid your annual tax of one pound. Plaatje, of course, had worked for the London Times, so that his mastery was not remarkable, but it was curious that some of the others had acquired such fluency.
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