Word: basutoland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general topic for the third in the series of International Seminar weekly forums will be Africa. Bennett Makalo Khaketla, a member of the Executive Council of the legislature of Basutoland, will talk on "Basutoland: Island in a Hostile Sea." The forum is scheduled for Wednesday, 8 p.m., at 6 Divinity Ave. It will be followed by an open reception...
...South African jails are filled to the roof with 1,575 political prisoners, including 94 white allies of the blacks. Hundreds more are being arrested daily. Those leaders who escaped the massive roundups have gone underground or fled to the safety of the British protectorates of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland. Leaderless and with their larders emptied by the stay-at-home strikes of the past month, the impoverished blacks ignored the order of the African National Congress to stay off the job one more week, and trooped glumly back to work...
...hollowed horn of an antelope or ram, to smear on himself or members of his family when good fortune is most needed. Among the 650,000 Basuto, he who holds the lenaka holds power. Everyone agrees that no one has had more powerful medicine than Mantsebo Amelia Seeiso, Basutoland's portly, domineering Paramount Chieftainess...
...only two years old when his father, Paramount Chief, died in 1940, and Mantsebo, the senior wife, took over as regent. Now he had come of age, and was demanding his throne immediately so that he could be in power in time for this week's elections, Basutoland's first step toward limited self-government...
...where his marks have dropped to near failing, anyway) until a family council was called to consider his demands. Mantsebo gave in, but it would be weeks before the conclave could be arranged, and meanwhile the old woman would be running things and able to control the nominations for Basutoland's new National Council...