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...with South African leaders in an effort to bring about an end to apartheid. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart recently visited the Zambian capital of Lusaka to talk with Kaunda in his study at the State House, the elegant mansion that once housed the governors of Northern Rhodesia. During the interview Kaunda applauded the growing opposition to apartheid in the U.S. and made an impassioned plea for international action to save South Africa from what he believes will be a bloody revolution. Excerpts...
Zimbabwe's 100,000 whites gave former Prime Minister Ian Smith a lopsided victory over more moderate candidates in the country's whites-only election the previous week. Smith, who engineered Rhodesia's break from Britain between 1965 and 1979, is still regarded as a white supremacist by many blacks. In the new Parliament, Smith's Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe party will control 15 of the 20 seats reserved for whites under the constitution...
Mugabe promised the Black Zimbebwean working class and peasants various social reforms before his 1980 election. Lower class Blacks rallied behind him to free the country--then called Rhodesia--from the rule of Ian Smith's white-minority government. In the wake of Mugabe's victory, workers pushed for better wages and peasants asked for more equitable distribution of and. After all, that's what they were promised...
...geography." Once inside, he began meeting with resistance leaders and filing pieces for such publications as The New Republic and The Nation under the pseudonym James North. Swanson, whose visit to the region coincided with the rise of Black militance in South Africa and the transfer of power in Rhodesia, watched his planned several-month visit stretch to a year, then two, then four and a half...
Citing the impact of sanctions on Rhodesia in the 1970s, Carstens said the withdrawal of capital-intensive American investment might force the South Africans to increase labor-incentive investment, craning more jobs for the country's 22 million Blacks...