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Although Botswana is heavily dependent on trade with neighboring South Africa and Rhodesia, President Seretse Khama, 55, has been expanding ties with black African countries and refuses to have diplomatic relations with either Pretoria or Salisbury. Forced by geography to be the most conservative of the front-line-five presidents, Khama denies the presence of Rhodesian guerrillas in his country and is reluctant to resort to violent confrontation...
Nkomo has strong support in the rural tribal regions and a tightly organized core of followers elsewhere. He is a friend of Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Botswana's Seretse Khama, and he is at least on speaking terms with the front-line five's two Marxist firebrands, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Agostinho Neto of Angola. With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed...
London dispatched a special emissary to Salisbury-Lord Greenhill, 62, former Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Presidents Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Seretse Khama of Botswana and Samora Machel of Mozambique warned that unless real progress was made "within weeks, not months," they would remove restraints from black Rhodesian guerrillas anxious to use their territories as a base for operations. Even South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster, a longtime backer of Smith, urged Salisbury to grant majority rule to Rhodesia's 5.8 million blacks (v. 273,000 whites); the alternative, he said, would...
Botswana's growth has proceeded smoothly, largely because of the policies of burly, Oxford-educated President Sir Seretse Khama, 53, a forceful advocate of both multiracial democracy (the population is about 98% black) and a mixed economy. Other black African regimes have leaped to 100% nationalization of foreign interests, but Sir Seretse has limited his government's share of Botswana's mineral income to part ownership of mining operations plus tax revenues. Plenty of profit and incentive remain for foreign investors, chiefly from the U.S. and neighboring South Africa...
...Rhodesia's exports pass through the Mozambique ports of Beira and Lourenso Marques. Closure of these vital outlets would mean swift economic strangulation for Rhodesia. A much longer rail route exists through Botswana to South Africa's ports. Last month, however, Botswana's President Sir Seretse Khama announced that he Intended to take over the rail line, and he might well close it to Rhodesian traffic. Thanks to a crash construction program, a direct rail link to South Africa was recently opened, but this new single-track line cannot possibly handle all the nation's exports...