Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With some of them coming directly from Rhodesian prisons or guerrilla bases in the bush, they were in no mood to approve a transition plan that would give Smith the opportunity to dominate events in Rhodesia for two more years. The African National Council's delegation, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, reflected much of the blacks' apprehension when it warned that Smith had come to Geneva merely to "carry out a gigantic fraud aimed at confusing world opinion...
Ringing Rhetoric. Understandably, there was also ringing African rhetoric. "We have come not in a spirit of give and take-only to take-take our country!" exclaimed the diminutive Bishop Muzorewa, perhaps Rhodesia's most popular black politician. Like the other black leaders, he demanded that the transition period be cut to one year and that in place of the appointive two-tier interim government there be a popularly elected Prime Minister and a Cabinet, with seats distributed according to the outcome of the election. Smith was extraordinarily brief, merely repeating his well-known views that he expected...
...evading its responsibility for the Rhodesian drama. The African delegates hastened to make clear that their objections were not to Richard personally. Even Robert Mugabe, regarded as the most militant of the delegation leaders, stressed that "the view we hold is by no means an attack on the chairman." Bishop Abel Muzorewa went further, saying, "I think he could become a tremendous chairman...
...made no mention of Donal Lamont, the Roman Catholic Rhodesian bishop. Lament just received a prison term of ten years for encouraging his medical staff to offer assistance to everyone, black or white...
...Bishop Lament said: "He who is silent is condemned...