Word: bulawayo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, riots left eleven Africans dead in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Southern Rhodesia...
...uneasy quiet returned to Salisbury. But in Bulawayo, which means Place of Slaughter, trouble still seethed. Government officials banned an N.D.P. meeting. Next day nearly three-quarters of the labor force went out on strike in protest and gangs of hooligans beat up Africans who refused to lay down their tools. In a drunken orgy of looting and burning, African thugs smashed into banks, post offices and welfare buildings, attacked even African-owned beerhalls and shops...
Brave Notion. As the flames of the burning African townships lit the sky around Bulawayo, police and Southern Rhodesian soldiers with fixed bayonets sealed off the African settlements, slowly began to close in. For three days the riots raged. Finally, as liquor supplies in the African quarters began to give out, order was restored. The eleven dead were the first Africans killed by white troops in Southern Rhodesia since the Mashona Rebellion was quelled...
...moved into the Central African part of his six-week crusade with a meeting in Southern Rhodesia's second largest city, Bulawayo (pop. 168,000), where 10,000 men, women and children crowded into the stadium in an unsegregated mixture of black, white, brown. "No American city would stage such a turnout on a Saturday," said Billy. "That's the day we do our shopping and take a bath at night...
...BUNGE Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia