Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Auxiliary. A guerrilla who has joined the government side, or a black who has been recruited as a counterinsurgent by one of the pro-government nationalist parties. Known in a Shona dialect as a Pfumo reVanhu (spear of the nation...
...harder for him to be a headman than it was for his father. Local leaders have become assassination targets. Even though he was jailed by the government for four years as a nationalist sympathizer, he can no longer be sure how his political record will be judged. He rarely sleeps at home; he rubs his long, thin fingers together to ease the stress as he talks. What "frightens me," he says, is the way harm can come from any quarter. If there is fighting in his area, he flees. "If the soldiers come, they might think I am the troublemaker...
...Guerrilla. He is a "Mugabe man," a contact between the military units of ZANIA and political branches of the nationalist leader's Zimbabwe African National Union inside Rhodesia. He is seriously committed to the long struggle for African liberation, but at times he is simply fascinated by his dizzy world...
With majority-rule government, the Rhodesian struggle will increasingly become one of blacks against blacks. In this new conflict, two fiery opponents will be Abel Muzorewa, almost certain to become Rhodesia's first black Prime Minister, and Nationalist Guerrilla Chief Robert Mugabe, leader of most of the Patriotic Front forces fighting inside the country. In interviews with TIME, Muzorewa and Mugabe spoke of themselves and their land...
...People's Union (ZAPU). In a lightning foray that underscored the feeble defenses of Rhodesia's black-ruled northern neighbor, the invaders overwhelmed a Zambian army base and razed Nkomo's home and headquarters. The suspicion was that the Rhodesians intended either to assassinate the portly nationalist leader or to take him back to Salisbury as a hostage...