Word: malawi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there simply to meet blacks-something that they would not have dared to do even a year ago. Even more startling, Pretoria's hostesses now consider it a social must to have at least one black man at a party; as a result, the only resident black ambassador, Malawi's sherry-sipping, highly professional Joe Kachingwe, is being run ragged. Kachingwe's six-year-old daughter Chipo recently became the first black student admitted to an all-white primary school. When one right-wing weekly greeted the event with a front-page headline reading WHAT IS THIS...
...stood, applauded, and sang Lank Sal Hy Lewe (Long May He Live), the Afrikaans equivalent of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Surprisingly for South Africa, the object of their hearty tribute was a black man, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, President of the tiny African state of Malawi, Last week Banda concluded a five-day state visit to South Africa; he was the first black President ever to visit the white-dominated Republic and the first chief of any foreign state to come calling since England's King George VI turned...
From the moment he stepped out of his Air Malawi BAC-111 jetliner to receive a 21-gun salute and a red-carpet greeting from South Africa's State President Jim Fouche, the emotional Banda seemed delighted to be there. Hustling over to a crowd of waiting Africans, he waved his fly whisk, made from a wildebeest's tail, and shouted in Fanagalo, the language of the South African gold mines, "Kamuzu is glad to be here." Later Banda led South African officials on a tour of the mine offices where he had worked as a youth...
...attempted to justify his visit by declaring, "If we do not agree and we do not meet, how are we going to resolve our problem?" But the visit still evoked considerable antagonism in much of Black Africa. Tanzania's government paper, The Standard, urged the O.A.U. to expel Malawi, adding that the trip would "further alienate Banda from all those who believe in the equality of man." In Kenya, the Daily Nation declared that Banda's visit, if followed by those of other African leaders, would "set into motion a train of diplomatic events that may well make...
...changing, as more and more South Africans realize that apartheid laws are stifling growth and hurting business at home-as well as largely barring them from a huge potential market to the north. Now, having seen their Prime Minister seated at a banquet table between two black ladies from Malawi, the South Africans may have taken a cautious step toward a more civilized future...