Word: muzorewas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting was a risky undertaking for all concerned. Smith was acting without the consent of his partners on the Executive Council, notably Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, who had joined the interim government last March. Nkomo was acting without the support of his colleague, Mugabe. And Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda was hosting the meeting without the express approval of his fellow "frontline" Presidents (Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Samora Machel of Mozambique, Agostinho Neto of Angola and Seretse Khama of Botswana), with whom he has been jointly seeking a Rhodesian settlement...
...every significant political alliance in the Rhodesian crisis under serious strain. Smith has angered his Executive Council colleagues, one of whose aides called him a traitor. After such a split, he may find it difficult to count on their future support. One danger, in fact, is that an angry Muzorewa might one day decide to bolt to the Patriotic Front. As for Nkomo and Mugabe, they are more suspicious of each other than ever before. Even their mentors, the leaders of the front-line states, are now divided by a serious dispute...
Chief supporter of the plan was Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the most influential of the three blacks on the four-man council. He pressed the council to adopt the new program, which he hailed as "a tremendous breakthrough...
...than that-and it was immediately attacked by other black leaders. "What do people in the tribal trust lands know about these changes while the war rages around them?" demanded John Maposa, an independent M.P. "What do they know about swimming pools and theaters?" Even the publicity secretary of Muzorewa's own United African National Council, David Mukome, argued that the new program had "just scratched the surface of the problem of discrimination...
...Muzorewa opposes such a move, but in the end he may be obliged to go along with it. Several members of his party have criticized him for "political ineptitude" and called for his resignation. Six months ago, he drew nearly 200,000 people at a rally near Salisbury; nowadays his meetings rarely attract more than 500. His colleague on the Executive Council, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, is doing even worse. Last week he scheduled a political rally at a football stadium in northeastern Rhodesia. Only 15 people showed...