Word: bulawayo
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Forebodings of danger have not cramped Nkomo's electioneering style While his ally turned rival Mugabe was sulking in Mozambique, Nkomo held huge rallies for blacks in Salisbury and Bulawayo under the Patriotic Front banner, which he has cleverly appropriated to his own party. He also wooed groups of white businessmen, industrialists and farmers. Nkomo's basic campaign message: reconciliation, political moderation and racial harmony. In contrast to much of his previous rhetoric from exile in Zambia, his official platform makes no mention of socialism or large-scale nationalizations...
...years ago, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith vowed that one-man, one-vote majority rule would not come to his country-where blacks now outnumber whites by 24 to 1-"in 1,000 years." But last week, in the Rhodesian city of Bulawayo, Smith changed his tune. As a starting point for negotiations with moderate black nationalist leaders living inside the country, he declared, he was now prepared to concede the principle of majority rule, based on universal adult suffrage. In return, he expected some sort of constitutional guarantees for whites under a future black government...
...happiest Africans in the world"-went on a rampage. For three consecutive nights more than 8,000 angry Africans rioted in Gwelo, Rhodesia's fourth largest city, burning buildings and hurling stones at white-owned cars. The trouble spread to Salisbury's Harare township and to Bulawayo, Fort Victoria and Umtali, where eight blacks were killed by police gunfire. By week's end 18 persons were dead (including two white helicopter crewmen) and at least 80 wounded...
...committee to help Boer refugees, and so incensed did he become at their tales of British bestiality that in 1903, the year after the war ended, he moved his family to Cape Town and became a missionary in the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1912, the Verwoerds were assigned to Bulawayo, a new British town in Southern Rhodesia, and young Henk was enrolled in a British boys' school. It was his first contact with the rooineks (red necks, an Afrikaner term of derision for the British who burned easily in the hot South African sun), and he hated them...
...stakes were rising in Ian Smith's daring game against the British. Rhodesians jammed the downtown streets of Salisbury and Bulawayo in a carefree holiday shopping spree, while shopkeepers demonstrated their support of the poker-faced Prime Minister by decorating their windows with his picture, draped in tinsel and purple bunting. But in the rest of Africa, black men were lacing their indignation at Smith's breakaway regime with ugly threats...