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- A new form of torture
Every mine has its lock-up for malingerers, deserters, and others. At the Witwatersrand the coolies are handcuffed over a horizontal beam. The floor is of concrete, and they may sit down, but the beam is so far from the floor that it is impossible for any but exceptionally tall men to sit while handcuffed. They must therefore squat, and for a change raise themselves in a semi-standing posture. - Acokanthera spectabilis
Acokanthera spectabilis - Adenium multiflorum
Adenium multiflorum - Agapanthus Umbellatus
Agapanthus Umbellatus - Aloe Pienaarii
Aloe Pienaarii - Aloe pretoriensis
Aloe pretoriensis - Aloe Globuligemma
Aloe Globuligemma - Arctotis Decurrens
Arctotis Decurrens - Bolusanthus speciosus
Bolusanthus speciosus - Capturing deserters
All the measures taken by the Government and the mine owners to prevent desertion have proved ineffective. The country around the Witwatersrand Mines has taken upon itself the aspect of the whole of the colony during the late war. Mounted constables with loaded revolvers organize drives. The whole district is patrolled, and every effort is made to bring back the deserters to the compounds. But as soon as one lot has returned another escapes. Every day you may see a mounted policeman riding down towards the law courts, followed by a string of Chinese deserters. - Ceropegia Meyeri
Ceropegia Meyeri - Ceropegia Rendallii
Ceropegia Rendallii - Clerodendron triphyllum
Clerodendron triphyllum - Clivia miniata
Clivia miniata - Crassula falcata
Cyrtanthus Angustifolius - Cutting the flesh
In another form of flogging practised, a short bamboo was used. The coolie would strip to the waist and go down on his knees with his head on the floor. His castigator would then squat beside him, and strike him across the shoulders with lightning rapidity. The blows, though apparently light, always fell on the one spot, and raised a large red weal before cutting the flesh. During the first quarter of this year no fewer than fifty-six coolies were whipped, after 8 p.m. one evening, at the Witwatersrand Mine, the dose varying from five to fifteen strokes. - Cyrtanthus Angustifolius
- Cyrtanthus McKenii
Cyrtanthus McKenii - Cyrtanthus obliquus
Cyrtanthus obliquus - Cyrtanthus rotundilobus
Cyrtanthus rotundilobus - Cyrtanthus sanguineus
Cyrtanthus sanguineus - Freesia refracta
Freesia refracta - Gardenia globosa
Gardenia globosa - Gerbera Jamesoni
Gerbera Jamesoni - Gladiolus psittacinus
Gladiolus psittacinus - Gladiolus Rehmanni
Gladiolus Rehmanni - Haemanthus natalensis
Haemanthus natalensis - Instead of flogging
A more refined form of torture was to bind a coolie's left wrist with a piece of fine rope, which was then put through a ring in a beam about nine feet from the ground. This rope was then made taut, so that the unhappy coolie, with his left arm pulled up perpendicularly, had to stand on his tip-toes. In this position he was kept, as a rule, for two hours, during which time, if he tried to get down on his heels, he must dangle in the air, hanging from the left wrist. - Jerboa
Jerboa - Laying on the punishment
Then the sentence is passed by the compound manager—ten, fifteen, or twenty strokes, according to the crime. The coolie, with a Chinese policeman on either side of him, is taken away about ten paces. Then he stops, and at the word of a policeman drops his pantaloons, and falls flat on his face and at full length on the floor. One policeman holds his feet together; another, with both hands pressed firmly on the back of his head, looks after that end of his body. Then the flagellator, with a strip of thick leather on the end of a three-foot wooden handle, lays on the punishment, severely or lightly, as instructed. Should the prisoner struggle after the first few strokes, another policeman plants a foot in the middle of his back until the full dose has been administered. - Leucadendron Stokoei
Leucadendron Stokoei - Leucadendron Stokoei
Leucadendron Stokoei - Mimetes palustris
Mimetes palustris - Moraea iridioides
Moraea iridioides - Nymphaea stellata
Nymphaea stellata - Orothamnus Zeyheri
Orothamnus Zeyheri - Pachypodium succulentum
Pachypodium succulentum - Protea abyssinica
Protea abyssinica - Richardia angustiloba
Richardia angustiloba - Richardia Rehmanni
Richardia Rehmanni - Sarcocaulon rigidum
Sarcocaulon rigidum - Senecio stapeliaeformis
Senecio stapeliaeformis - Stapelia Gettleffii
Stapelia Gettleffii - Streptocarpus Dunnii
Streptocarpus Dunnii - Tulbaghia violacea
Tulbaghia violacea - Witsenia maura
Witsenia maura