Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote, there were reservations over how much pressure to cast ballots had been exerted by whites, especially in rural areas. There were also suspicions that under-18 youths had been al lowed to vote illegally in some places. Moreover, some of the districts where the bishop's United African National Council party had won most handsomely registered figures that approached, or were even higher than the 100% of voters who had been thought to live there, reflecting either ballot-stuffing or poor population estimates to begin with...
...Executive Council that runs the interim government. After the polls closed, Sithole declared the elections a thumping success; within a few hours, he was charging that "gross irregularities" had occurred. Sithole's opponents accused him of being a bad loser, since his party, a branch of the Zimbabwe African National Union, got only 14½% of the vote. Later, it was announced that his party had won twelve parliamentary seats and would qualify for two Cabinet posts in the new government. Most observers expect him to join the Cabinet...
There was no sign last week that Rhodesia's black-ruled neighbors would react favorably to such a call. Like many other African leaders, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda denounced the election; he also hinted that if South Africa entered into a military alliance with the new Salisbury government, he would be obliged to seek new Soviet and Chinese arms in an effort to stop Rhodesian attacks on the guerrilla camps in his country...
...position of the open letter which has been submitted to you, seeks, and I believe strongly does do so, to reconcile these concerns, these differing, balanced understanding of a moral position for the University to take in the face of the South African regime and our own investments of stocks in that regime, in companies with stock in that regime. It is a moderate position, it is not a position of washing one's hands, although some have characterized it as such, it is not a position of self-righteousness. It is a position which seeks to come to terms...
...Times, who as you know devoted two articles to this subject. He says, "I wonder if you have any information which we lack concerning the political and physical possibility of any foreign firm actually withdrawing its assets from the Republic of South Africa. On March 30, 1977, the South African Finance Minister stated in his budget speech to the Parliament that foreign controlled South African enterprises will in the future only be allowed to transfer profits to foreign countries out of profits earned in the preceding two years. This has been interpreted to me by the editor of the Financial...