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Into the Sea. According to Black Nationalist Potlako Leballo, who fled to the British-ruled enclave of Basutoland, Poqo is a terrorist offshoot of Sobukwe's militant Pan-African Congress and is determined to "murder the whites or chase them into the sea." As it turned out, Leballo's big mouth did Poqo more harm than good. Embarrassed British officials ordered his arrest, and he barely escaped into Basutoland's rugged mountains, leaving behind him a list of 10,000 black rebels in South Africa. Thanks either to coincidence or to Basutoland's connivance, South African...
Clad in gay robes and conical straw hats, hard-riding Basuto tribesmen last week poured into their hilltop capital of Maseru. The joyous occasion: the royal marriage in the Roman Catholic cathedral of Our Lady of Victories between a serene young student named Tabitha Masentle Mojela and Basutoland's Paramount Chief, Oxford-educated Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II, who ascended the throne of the British protectorate in 1960 after a tough fight with his stepmother, who had acted as regent for 20 years...
...whinny-an affectionate salute that is supposed to imitate the neighing of a Basuto pony. They scrupulously obeyed the sign posted before the church: "No horses allowed in the cathedral." Also on hand to pay their respects were foreign diplomats stationed in South Africa, the country that completely surrounds Basutoland. With the two-hour marriage ceremony completed, the diplomats headed home and all Basutoland (pop. 700,000) settled down to three days of parades, celebrations and feasts of barbecued oxen...
...applies even if the listed man lives outside of South Africa. The Liberal Party magazine Contact is no longer able to print articles by Party Leader Patrick Duncan, who edits it from exile in Basutoland. Actor-Playwright Cecil Williams may appear in other people's plays−as long as he does not ad-lib−but no one can appear in his. Two Capetown city councilors are allowed to attend council meetings, but their remarks must be left out of the record. No one may publish cross-examination−or even scholarly legal briefs−by Abraham Fischer...
Ethiopia, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland will send students to the United States under the program for the first time next year. Only countries in Sub-Sahara Africa participate in the program...