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First, the Royal Swazi Casino opened six years ago in the Kingdom of Swaziland's picturesque Ezulwini Valley. It proved so successful that Holiday Inns last year followed up with another hotel and casino in Lesotho, a tiny mountain kingdom completely surrounded by South Africa. Now the chain has opened a third casino at Gaborone, the dust-bowl capital of Botswana, which is located only 200 miles from Johannesburg...
There were plenty of acceptances, from King Hussein to Princess Grace and Prince Rainier, as well as Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny. But most of the visitors were lesser-knowns, such as King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Liechtenstein's Prince Franz Joseph and Swaziland's Premier Prince Makhosini...
...other hand, many popinjays have endured. In Lesotho, Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan, 56, engineered a coup last year after he was voted out at the polls. Nyerere's Vice President, Abeid Karume, 64, runs Moslem-dominated Zanzibar as an island unto itself, despite its 1964 incorporation into Tanzania; Karume has instituted "reforms" like forcing 14-and 15-year-old Zanzibar Asian girls to marry black Revolutionary Council members, including himself. In Equatorial (formerly Spanish) Guinea, following a business dispute with a West German pump manufacturer, President Francisco Macias Nguema seized the industrialist's wife last month...
South Africa remains rich and strong, and has made virtual satellites of four small black states that lie near by or within its borders: Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana and Malawi. But in the long term, the Africans believe, time and the birth rate are on their side. Rhodesia's population today is black by a ratio of 21 to 1; by the year 2050, it will...
...disenfranchisement of black majorities in South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal's African colonies. It was symptomatic of the essential nonalignment of the nonaligned these days, however, that Kaunda's proposal of formal censure of white minority rule in those states was hotly opposed by Swaziland, Lesotho and other countries that depend heavily on trade with South Africa...