Word: muzorewas
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...black majority was greatly pleased by the commission's findings. Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of the newly formed African National Council, called the report a "God-given chance" for Rhodesia's blacks and whites "to reason together and try to solve their problems." Smith was not having any of that kind of reasoning. "They are a bunch of unscrupulous politicians," he said of the council leaders, "who have hoodwinked the poor African." In the absence of a settlement, the British government will maintain its diplomatic and economic boycott of Rhodesia. "The status quo," said Foreign Secretary...
...genies back into the box, have no fear about that," boasts Rhodesian Information Minister P.K. Van Der Byl. The blacks, however, will not soon forget what they have learned in the past six weeks. "It may take six years, it may take ten," says Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the council's principal leader, "but we will not stop until we have reached our goal-freedom...