Word: landing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago, while visiting friends in a tribal trust land only 20 miles from Salisbury, the girl was confronted once again by four ZANIA guerrillas. They threatened her for supporting the interim government "like all the blacks in Salisbury." She has not left the capital since...
...Headman. For 50 years, his father was headman of a village of 47 families who share common grazing land for their prized livestock. Having inherited that position of respect, he now rotates cattle guard among the families, collects taxes, presides over quarrels, grants divorces and mediates disputes. He is entitled to eight acres of land, two more than the six other members of his kraal (family group...
...still has faith that black rule will eventually mean more land for blacks, who can no longer support themselves on their inherited parcels of worn-out acreage. "When I was born, the land was still good," he says. "There were trees and grass. Now there are just a few trees. We have used them for houses and firewood. We used to feed a family from one acre and sell what we grew on the other five acres in the market. Now it takes five acres to feed a family, and the remaining land does not produce enough to buy clothing...
...conflict, two fiery opponents will be Abel Muzorewa, almost certain to become Rhodesia's first black Prime Minister, and Nationalist Guerrilla Chief Robert Mugabe, leader of most of the Patriotic Front forces fighting inside the country. In interviews with TIME, Muzorewa and Mugabe spoke of themselves and their land...
...program for Zimbabwe: It is based on scientific socialism. In general, a one-party state with built-in democratic mechanisms would be preferable to a two-party or multiparty system. Land, land, land, land has been the main source of grievance in the country. We have got to make land the people's property and distribute it. China did not wait, and Russia did not wait?they started as outright Marxist. We have got to develop ourselves along those lines. We don't have to hide anything...