Word: botswana
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...only trouble was that the parties involved-the white Rhodesians, the black Rhodesians, the five "frontline" Presidents of Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana and Angola-had sharply differing ideas of what the conference was supposed to accomplish. "Rowlands and Schaufele seemed to be trying not to offend or differ with anyone," said a Western diplomat in Tanzania. "Their idea seems to be to get a conference going, and then hope that things will work out simply because everyone is in one room...
London's decision was greeted with enthusiasm in Gaborone, where African leaders had gathered to help celebrate Botswana's tenth anniversary of independence. "Good news," declared Zambia's President Kaunda. Rhodesian Nationalist Joshua Nkomo, a leading candidate to head a post-Smith government in Rhodesia (see box page 41), was "delighted." Added one of his rivals, Bishop Abel Muzorewa: "That's great...
...BOTSWANA. Pop. 700,000. Independent (from Britain) since 1966. Multiparty parliamentary democracy. Literacy: 10%. Per capita G.N.P.: $280. Exports: beef, diamonds, hides and skins. Economy is expanding (exports have increased twelve times since independence, to $120 million in 1975) with the discovery of abundant mineral wealth and substantial foreign investment...
...Although Botswana is heavily dependent on trade with neighboring South Africa and Rhodesia, President Seretse Khama, 55, has been expanding ties with black African countries and refuses to have diplomatic relations with either Pretoria or Salisbury. Forced by geography to be the most conservative of the front-line-five presidents, Khama denies the presence of Rhodesian guerrillas in his country and is reluctant to resort to violent confrontation...
Nkomo has strong support in the rural tribal regions and a tightly organized core of followers elsewhere. He is a friend of Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Botswana's Seretse Khama, and he is at least on speaking terms with the front-line five's two Marxist firebrands, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Agostinho Neto of Angola. With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed...