Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carefully avoids unnecessary irritation at the black governments to the north. He shrewdly plays down his support of the white rebel regime of Rhodesia's Ian Smith, plays up his desire to soften the hostility of black Africa. "We leave the door of friendship open to all other African states," he said last month, "in the hope that more and more of them will in the course of time make...
Doubts of Others. It is an offer that many African leaders cannot ignore. Although they condemn apartheid, they find that they can buy many goods more cheaply from South Africa than from any place else in the world; during the first four months of this year, South African exports to Africa totaled $78 million, up 30% from the year before...
...will be dependent on the South African economy for survival. Eventually he hopes to create a southern African Common Market, composed of the protectorates, Rhodesia, Portuguese Mozambique and Angola, and perhaps even black-ruled Malawi, where Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda has little choice but to be nice to the white lands that surround him. Dominating such a market, of course, would be South Africa...
...brilliant diplomat and an inventive politician. He is the inspired defender of the Afrikaner faith, the unquestioned captain of the Afrikaner laager. But his fortress is vulnerable and his enemy within. So taut are the nerves of South Africa's blacks that twice in recent months crashes of African commuter trains have set the passengers off in bloody rioting against their white engineers. Outside his confident country, there are those who fear that the slick suppression he has made a science will one day explode in a wrathful orgy, endangering the peace of lands beyond his own frontiers...
...before "the winds of change." No black African nation recognizes the Verwoerd regime, and their diplomatic barriers have forced South African Airways to detour 1,000 miles around the western hump of the continent on its European flights. An international seminar on apartheid opens this week in Brazil, with 30 nations participating...