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...prepared to debate a bill legally establishing the Transkei Bantustan-certain to pass the Nationalist Party-controlled legislature, probably by June-there was more trouble. The government plans to make Kaizer Matanzima. a mission-educated Tembu chief, the chief minister of the new Transkei government. The bodyguard of a headman serving Matanzima got into a tribal fight with 40 warriors armed with spears and axes. Matanzima quickly mustered 500 men to crush the revolt, and South African police stood by with a truckload of men and a helicopter. The rebels fled into the hills. Police blamed the trailer murders...
...yourself against the white man," warned Tom Mboya's father, a sober, hard-working Jaluo tribesman who was the African headman at the farm's sisal-processing plant. "He is too powerful, and you cannot change him." But Tom Mboya recalls how riled he was at the sight of the stern estate manager, whom the Africans in fear called Bwana Kiboko-the boss who carries the hippo-skin whip...
Scrawling in the Sand. Making the princely local sum of $7 a month as headman, his father could afford the luxury of school for Tom at Kabaa mission, 25 miles away, where Roman Catholic priests were Irish and the fees were $14 a year. There, at nine, Tom scrawled his lessons in the sand under a shade tree, for classrooms were crowded and blackboards nonexistent. At his next school, St. Mary's, near Lake Victoria, the lessons for the first time were in English. He was no prodigious scholar, and no leader, but he liked singing, acting, and especially...
...eligible a voter had to be over 21, have eight years of schooling or an annual income of $420, or have served as a chief headman or clan leader. In the five constituencies that balloted last week, only 28,500 citizens who met the qualifications registered. The remaining five constituencies will vote in February...
...villagers. Of course, we couldn't do the interviews ourselves, so we had a team of ten University M.A.'s doing it. One of our problems was that the village women had no idea what an opinion poll was. 'Why do you want to ask me?' they said. 'The headman knows more than...