Word: lusaka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week in 22 English-language newspapers across South Africa said simply, LET THE A.N.C. SPEAK FOR ITSELF. The ad then urged State President P.W. Botha to legalize the outlawed African National Congress, which that very day was holding a 75th-anniversary celebration at its headquarters-in-exile in Lusaka, Zambia. Prominently featured in the advertisement was a silhouette of Nelson Mandela, the A.N.C.'s symbolic leader, who is serving out a life sentence at Pollsmoor Prison, near Cape Town. The advertisement, placed by 18 antiapartheid and church groups, asserted that "there can be no solution to this country...
...compromise" was worked out with the international bankers, it was clear to all in the financial communities that the South African economy was going to be in trouble. Within South Africa itself a group of prominent white (English speaking) business leaders took steps of their own, including visits to Lusaka, Zambia for conferences with the leadership of the banned African National Congress. The government was furious, but realized it could not act against its own business leadership...
...crash. The accident occurred as Machel was returning from a Zambian summit meeting of so-called frontline black African states located near South Africa. Machel's official plane, a Soviet-made Tupolev 134-B, took off with 44 people aboard, including a Soviet crew of five. It refueled in Lusaka, then flew across Zimbabwe and headed south toward the Mozambique capital of Maputo. Violent thunderstorms were hitting the area, and visibility was poor. Near the South African town of Komatipoort, the Soviet pilot announced he had Maputo airport in sight and descended. The Maputo airport was actually 45 miles away...
...much influence Moscow has over A.N.C. policies and personnel is a matter of deep controversy. The organization has had close and unhidden ties for more than 60 years to the South African Communist Party, including pro-S.A.C.P. endorsements from Mandela before his jailing. Observers of the A.N.C. in Lusaka suspect that as many as half the 30 members of its national executive committee may belong to the S.A.C.P...
...served as acting president of the African National Congress for 19 years. The son of a peasant Transkei farmer, he studied at a Protestant missionary school and once considered becoming an Anglican minister. At one of the A.N.C.'s modest houses scattered throughout the Zambian capital of Lusaka, Tambo discussed his group's aims and methods with TIME Senior Editor George M. Taber and Correspondents Bruce Nelan and James Wilde. Dressed nattily in a beige safari suit with a paisley cravat tucked around his neck, the A.N.C. president tugged thoughtfully on wispy chin whiskers as he spoke. Excerpts...