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...popular highland resorts near the Mozambique border must now be abandoned ("not really safe, you know "), but some relief that gas rationing has been eased. "The people over there depend on us for jobs, money and food, "says a Highlands polo player, pointing to the sprawling African townships of Highfield and Harare eight miles outside Salisbury. "They know that if they start something, well leave and the country will collapse. They'll be in a bind without us, and the smart ones know better than to cause trouble...
...black townships of Highfield and Harare outside Salisbury, the tin-roofed, cement-floored cinder-block houses are packed six to the acre. Blacks are not allowed to own their own homes. Instead, they must rent them from the Salisbury city council. Only the main streets are paved and lighted, although most homes now have electricity and running water. The schools are segregated and definitely unequal. The government spent $56 per black pupil last year, $494 for every white pupil. "We don't want to drive the Europeans out," says a black bricklayer who lives with nine relatives...
Several arms caches have been discovered in Highfield and Harare by the newly formed PUTU (Police Urban Terrorism Unit), but a police captain admits that "we probably got only the tip of the iceberg. God knows how much stuff is squirreled away out there." Black feeling has grown more militant now that the talks between Smith and Nkomo have failed. "Nkomo gave it a good go," says a black shopkeeper in Highfield, "but now he's had it. Now we will have to fight one way or the other...
...Salisbury's downtown streets was broken only by occasional drunken cries ("Rhodesia, Rhodesia") and a few blasts of car horns. Most white Rhodesians performed their usual tasks, went home to their usual dinners and sat down to watch their usual TV programs. In the teeming African townships of Highfield and Harare, police doubled their nightly patrols, but all was quiet. The African beer halls, normally raucous with life, were gloomy and deserted...
Another throng of the Queen's subjects poured onto the tarmac of Salisbury Airport last week, but there were no leaders of society among them. For they were black, and had straggled in from the African townships of Harare and Highfield outside the city. They crowded onto balconies, perched in jacaranda trees, and clung to flagpoles around the airport building. More than 6,000 of them were squeezed in alight mass, hemmed in on one side by a 12-ft. wire fence, on the other by a cordon of police and their dogs. When the R.A.F. Comet whistled...