Word: kaunda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble with Smith's plan is that black Africa will not buy it. Across the Zambezi River in Lusaka, TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood talked with two of the black leaders most concerned with achieving a Rhodesian settlement: Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, one of Africa's most respected leaders, and Joshua Nkomo, perhaps the best known of the Rhodesian nationalists and co-leader (with Robert Mugabe) of the Patriotic Front...
...Kaunda, once an advocate of nonviolence, explained why he allows the Patriotic Front to operate training and staging camps for an estimated 3,000 guerrillas in his country, and why he is convinced that only military force can bring majority rule to Rhodesia's 6.2 million blacks. Nkomo reaffirmed that his followers will accept nothing less than real majority rule in Rhodesia-or Zimbabwe, as the nationalists call it -on the basis of one man, one vote...
...choose their leaders in free elections. But the Patriotic Front wants first to take power and then hold elections. Demonstrating their ability to separate ideology and gastronomy, delegates feasted on Rhodesian beef and lamb at Libreville banquets, then approved a resolution, proposed by Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, that virtually recognizes the Patriotic Front as the sole representative of black nationalists in Rhodesia. The front was designated as the only legitimate recipient of OAU financial...
...Faction. Senegal's Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, proposed that all black nationalist leaders be given equal OAU endorsement. But other delegates were influenced by Kaunda, whose backing of the Patriotic Front was a dramatic switch from his previous backing of all Rhodesian black nationalist movements. The Zambian leader concluded that OAU support for one faction would make a post-independence fight for political control less likely. He also endorsed Mugabe's argument that majority rule can be won only by armed conflict. Declared Kaunda: "A new Zimbabwe [Rhodesia] can only...
Rhodesian officials shrugged off Kaunda's declaration as the diplomatic equivalent of a mosquito bite, but the brutal civil war in the runaway British colony continues-and it is the innocent who suffer most. Caught in the political crossfire, terrorized black villagers are beaten, tortured or murdered by guerrillas if they refuse to help the cause, jailed and sometimes hanged by Rhodesian government forces if they do. Earlier this month, a 15-man security-force patrol tracked a team of guerrillas through the Ndanga Tribal Trust Land to Dabwe Kraal. When darkness fell, the troops climbed over a fence...