Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will take all the American teachers in Africa many months to erase the scars left by Senator Ellender's thoughtless remarks during his recent African junket...
Royboy refused to admit defeat. "I will go on fighting to alter a decision I consider wrong in every way," he thundered before an emergency session of his Federal Parliament in Salisbury. In London, beleaguered R. A. Butler, Deputy Prime Minister who is in charge of Central African affairs, wearily insisted that it was "our duty" to okay Nyasaland's secession. To soothe a strong bloc of pro-Welensky Tories, he said that he would visit Central Africa early next year to look into the chances of preserving a union between the two Rhodesias...
...chances seem slim. Southern Rhodesia's Tobacco Farmer Winston Field, 58, who was sworn in as new Prime Minister last week, intends to divide the land into three "tiers" of racially restricted areas - for whites, Africans and racially mixed families. Though Field insists that his plan is a long way from apartheid, the new black government in Northern Rhodesia will hardly be able to tell the difference. The Northern Rhodesian blacks already have threatened to sever economic ties unless Southern Rhodesia broadens its voting franchise and releases the African nationalists who have been placed under restriction. Otherwise, cried Nationalist...
Rupert shuns South Africa's bruising party politics, and despite his Dutch ancestry, bristles at being called an Afrikaner. "I'm a light-skinned South African,'' he snaps. "Leave it at that." No friend to racial integration, Rupert campaigns actively for white immigration to bolster South Africa's small (3,000,000) white population. But, like many other South African businessmen, he opposes the government's drive to isolate the country's Africans in all-black enclaves, economically and politically separate from the white community...
Whenever he opens a plant abroad, Rupert insists that 50% of the capital come from local investors to ensure local support. Ultimately, he would like to bring Africans in as shareholders in his South African enterprises. Says Rupert: "Many of us are beginning to realize that if we help the dark man rise, we shall rise with him; but if we hold him down, he will pull us down with...