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...kingdom is not of this world," Jesus said. To Jehovah's Witnesses, who now number more than 2 million worldwide, that is a command to boycott all political activity. Various nations have found this irksome, but few have matched the violence of Malawi's response. During a 1972 crackdown by President-for-life Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, a Presbyterian elder, Malawi Witnesses were robbed, beaten, raped, even murdered. Thousands fled to neighboring Zambia, which shipped most of them back to Malawi. Eventually, about 34,000 found refuge in Portuguese Mozambique...
...sooner did Mozambique gain independence last June, however, than the new republic required everyone to join "dynamization groups" and bone up on Marxism. When the Witnesses balked, they were forced back to Malawi. There they have steadfastly refused to buy 34? cards that would make them members of Banda's Congress Party. The penalty: loss of homes and jobs. Hundreds of Witnesses are dying of starvation or disease. Young party thugs are also subjecting them to renewed violence. Awake!, the Witnesses' semimonthly U.S. newspaper, says that Malawi's "record reeks of beastliness, of insensibility to any standards...
SOUTH AFRICA also relies heavily on Mozambique labor for its mining industry, as nearly a quarter of its miners have come from southern Mozambique. Malawi is already withdrawing its nationals from South African mines, and if Machel's government recalls Mozambique citizens, South Africa will lose about half its miners. And the same reasons that made foreign labor so attractive to the mine owners make them reluctant to rely on South African laborers--a higher concentration of black South Africans in the mines could increase the number of strikes and work stoppages that already plague the South African ruling elite...
...next month in Kampala, and Amin, as the host, desperately wants it to be a success. Last week the government of Botswana announced that it would boycott the Kampala meeting because of Amin's "disregard for the sanctity of human life." Several other member states, possibly including Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia, may do the same...
...black majority. "If the government hasn't the bloody sense to seek a realistic agreement with the Africans, terrorism will get worse and so will race relations generally," predicts Sir Roy Welensky, last Prime Minister (1956-63) of the old British-dominated federation of Rhodesia, Zambia and Malawi. "Change is coming, and the government cannot stop it. It is up to Smith whether it comes peacefully-or whether we get our throats...