Word: mashonas
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...light it threw on Joshua Nkomo. Until now, it had been assumed by many that the pragmatic and ambitious Nkomo was the strongest candidate to lead an independent Zimbabwe -even though, as a member of the minority Matabele tribe, he would lack the wholehearted support of the powerful Mashona peoples, who form about 80% of the country's population. But Nkomo's performance last week, in the aftermath of the crash and the massacre, raised new doubts about his qualifications for national leadership...
...Kenneth Kaunda, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Botswana's Seretse Khama, and he is at least on speaking terms with the front-line five's two Marxist firebrands, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Agostinho Neto of Angola. With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed...
...LAUGH very much these days. In fact, there've been only two things that made me cackle in recent memory: a line from Levi-Strauss ("... among the Mashona and Matabele of Africa the word 'totem' also means 'sister's vulva,' which provides indirect confirmation of the equivalence between eating and copulation"), and the play by Chris Durang '71 at Dunster House ("Where's Jesus' body?" "Would you believe the Knights of Columbus fervently...
...appoints whom first. The constitution also provides for a Senate with black representation but a permanent white majority, and a House of Assembly of 66 members to start. Of those, 50 will be elected by Rhodesia's 264,700 whites, eight by the dominant Matabele and Mashona tribes. The remaining eight will be elected by chiefs and headmen, who are in the government's pay. Africans are eventually to be given up to 50 seats as their income tax contributions rise. That will be a long time coming, since the Africans, with an average annual income...
...fixed bayonets sealed off the African settlements, slowly began to close in. For three days the riots raged. Finally, as liquor supplies in the African quarters began to give out, order was restored. The eleven dead were the first Africans killed by white troops in Southern Rhodesia since the Mashona Rebellion was quelled...