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...buffer states, South African Prime Minister John Vorster pressed forward with a plan to achieve a détente between black-and white-ruled Africa. In this effort he was joined, though with quite different motives, by one of black Africa's most responsible leaders, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda...
Last October Kaunda sent a truce offer to Pretoria. His terms: that Vorster pressure Smith into holding a new constitutional conference aimed at obtaining African majority rule in Rhodesia; and that South Africa itself accept majority (meaning black) rule in South West Africa (Namibia), the U.N. territory South Africa has run since 1920. Kaunda wants aid and more trade with South Africa, and wants South African grain not only for Zambia but for other Central African states that currently suffer from a serious food shortage...
...Kaunda did not go so far as to ask South Africa to abandon its own racist policies. In fact, Vorster has begun to smooth down some of the rough edges of apartheid-by easing the job restrictions on nonwhites, for instance -thereby making his policies somewhat less objectionable to his black neighbors. Though South Africa was voted out of the U.N. General Assembly last month, Vorster vowed at the time that South Africa's critics would be surprised "at where the country will stand in six to twelve months." In the meantime, according to diplomatic observers, Vorst laid...
...price of racial confrontation was "too high for southern Africa to pay." He appealed for cooperation among countries of the area, and offered financial as well as technical aid to any African nation that requested it. Vorster's proposal evoked a favorable response from Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, who welcomed the speech as "the voice of reason for which Africa and the rest of the world have been waiting...
...surprised to find one young man who was already fighting this discrimination, and they became friends. That early organizer was Kenneth Kaunda, now the president of Zambia. Kaunda's courage forced Karefa-Smart to re-evaluate his own career and the fruits of all his education...