Word: matanzimas
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Transkei, seeking a Prime Minister for South Africa's first "self-governing" Bantustan (TIME, Nov. 29), last week gave an overwhelming majority of their votes to Paramount Chief Victor Poto. But as it turned out, Poto did not get the job. Instead the office went to Chief Kaizer Matanzima, the candidate preferred by the South African government. Poto wants white men and white investment capital in the Transkei, while Matanzima, a black racist, supports the idea of an all-black state...
...embryo Legislative Assembly, which under the territory's constitution chooses the Prime Minister. Since the Assembly has 64 members appointed by the government and only 45 deputies elected by the voters, the odds were heavily against Poto. Even so, he lost by only five votes. Chief Matanzima claimed a "clean-cut victory," but in fact he will take office with the uneasy knowledge that most of the Transkei's 1,400,000 Xhosa seem to be stubbornly opposed to Matanzima's program of strict racial separation, which he euphemistically calls "peaceful coexistence of the races...
Last week, as the Parliament in Cape Town prepared to debate a bill legally establishing the Transkei Bantustan-certain to pass the Nationalist Party-controlled legislature, probably by June-there was more trouble. The government plans to make Kaizer Matanzima. a mission-educated Tembu chief, the chief minister of the new Transkei government. The bodyguard of a headman serving Matanzima got into a tribal fight with 40 warriors armed with spears and axes. Matanzima quickly mustered 500 men to crush the revolt, and South African police stood by with a truckload of men and a helicopter. The rebels fled into...
...Matanzima's powers to govern the Transkei's 1,400,000 blacks, 15,000 to 20,000 whites, and 14,000 coloreds will be strictly limited. All measures passed by the local legislature of tribal chiefs and elected representatives are subject to veto by the central government; Cape Town still will control justice and internal security. Money to improve the barren region will be lacking. Verwoerd has promised an annual budget subsidy of $30 million, but this falls far short of meeting the need for housing, schools, land reclamation, establishing new industry. In addition, Matanzima faces powerful political...