Word: leabua
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...crime of Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan, for which he must pay sometime in the near future, is that he has courted apartheid too long and too hard. In striving to be a good neighbor, to win extraordinary favours from the Afrikaner Nationalists, he has estranged himself from his own people...
...interracial sports to permit South Africa to send an integrated team to the 1968 Olympics. Vorster also created something of a stir last month by receiving a trade delegation from the black African nation of Malawi with full honors (including limousines driven by white chauffeurs), entertained Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan of the tiny new state of Lesotho at lunch in Cape Town's stately Mount Nelson Hotel-breaking at least three apartheid restrictions in the process. Last week Vorster's government announced that it will grant limited autonomy to a tribal area in South West Africa known...
Dressed in native blanket and conical straw hat, he galloped about his Maryland-size realm on a shaggy pony, enlisting citizens' support in his bid for more control of Lesotho's domestic and foreign policies. Not surprisingly, such politicking alarmed Premier Chief Leabua Jonathan, who saw in the royal actions a plot to overthrow the new constitutional government...
...first time in the land of apartheid, South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd last week received a black African leader. He is Chief Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Basutoland, which, with independence next month, gets a new name...