Word: ndabaningi
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Muzorewa and his two black associates, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Tribal Chief Jeremiah Chirau, need a large voter turnout in order to lend credibility to the election. Along with their white colleague, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, architect of the country's "internal settlement," they are anxious to counter the intense resistance to the poll being mounted by more than 10,500 guerrillas of the Patriotic Front...
Chinamano charged the Salisbury government (the four-man executive council consisting of Smith, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau) with using private armies in addition to the regular army to brutalize the Zimbabwe people...
...Smith's immediate problems is to maintain some kind of unity in his interim government, in which he shares power with three moderate black leaders: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau. Many black supporters of these leaders have already expressed their displeasure over the amount of power that the whites will retain after a new government takes office following the April elections. The whites will still hold 28 of the 100 seats in Parliament and one-quarter of the Cabinet portfolios, and will retain a strong voice over the judiciary, the civil service...
...soldiers hold off the guerrillas, Smith and his cohorts are making sure that the white minority will hold many of the strings of power in the domestic settlement for transition to black rule. The provisional accord Smith signed this spring with three black moderates--Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole and Jeremiah Chirau--guarantees whites a 28-member bloc in the future parliament, enough seats to block any constitutional changes. An equally significant clause promises that whites will retain control of the national army, police force, and civil service for at least ten years. Blacks will get the vote...
...names are known; they operate underground. They've seen what happens to publicly known leaders. The young blacks, who should most legitimately be regarded as the valid leaders, all emphatically want withdrawal. The black mood in Southern Africa is away from tactical compromise as expressed by Muzerewa, [Jerome] Chirau, [Ndabaningi] Sithole, and Buthelezi...