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...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...
...internal settlement that Prime Minister Smith worked out last March with three moderate black leaders?Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau?had not been expected to provide an easy transition to black majority rule in Rhodesia. Last week it was clear that Smith's settlement plan had not only faltered, but might be close to failure...
Those who remained must deal with another problem: the bitter division between black advocates of the internal settlement and those who support the Patriotic Front. Says a student: "There is too much tension in the towns between those who support [Bishop Abel] Muzorewa or [the Rev. Ndabaningi] Sithole and backers of the Patriotic Front. Sometimes it leads to people being knifed. If we talked politics, the same would happen here. We are in a different world here. It would be nice if we never had to leave...
...civil service and police. Since then, according to veteran civil servants, the level of cooperation between black and white ministers sharing the same portfolio has been generally high. But the real test is whether the blacks on Rhodesia's governing Executive Council-Bishop Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau-can pull off a ceasefire; the evidence so far strongly suggests they cannot. They still routinely invite Patriotic Front Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo to return home and participate in free elections, but with little result. Nkomo replied recently that he would turn the ballot boxes...
Meanwhile, Lonrho's Rhodesian subsidiaries were supplying easy credit to followers of the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, one of three moderate black leaders on the Executive Council. Sithole loyalists, once known to be virtually penniless, have bought expensive houses and farms, and ride around in Land Rovers and Mercedes automobiles that younger Africans describe sardonically as "Lonrhomobiles." Asked one black student leader at the University of Rhodesia: "What the hell is Rowland trying to do, swap Ian Smith for this crowd of bought blacks...