Get the sjamboks off the American television screens, droned the visitor to South Africa on and on. They are doing to your case what live coverage did to American support for South Vietnam in the war: killing it off.
The sjambok is a solid whip-cane about three feet long, usually made of rhinocerous hide, and used by South African police in riot control. It hurts, but is no more punitive than the fine old American billy club, no more terrifying to experience as observer or victim than the snarling dogs and high-pressure hoses in the civil-rights disturbances in Alabama only yesterday.
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