Word: indaba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home with his wife, and spends as much time as possible inside guarded gates of No. 8's jacaranda-lined grounds. No major legislation has emerged from his tour as Prime Minister, but to promote independence he has flown to London twice, held a national referendum, an indaba (meeting) of African chiefs (all government-paid) and a full-scale parliamentary election (in which the Front won all 50 white seats but did not even contest the 15 black ones...
...hours with restricted Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo in eastern Rhodesia's steaming Hippo Valley, two hours with another delegation in the seclusion of the ladies' powder room at a Rhodesian airbase. Scarcely had Bottomley landed in Salisbury than he was whisked off to nearby Domboshawa for an indaba (powwow) with 600 government-paid chiefs and headmen. One after another, the chiefs, who are the leaders of rural tribes but have little following in the cities, stood up to attack British insistence on dealing with black nationalist politicians instead of "the true leaders of the people, the chiefs." Britain...
Ignoring repeated warnings from London, Smith last month called a special referendum of the colony's 90,000 white and 10,000 African voters, to be held this week. Even more ominously, he arranged to "take the opinion" of the other 3,690,000 blacks by calling an indaba, a powwow of their 622 tribal chiefs and headmen-most of them grizzled old men whose primary loyalties are to their government paychecks...