Word: nkomo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Butler's answer last week was that the conference settling the details of the dissolution of the federation must be held first, which makes the situation-like so many in Africa-appear insoluble. Fleeing a police rap, Southern Rhodesia's Black Nationalist Joshua Nkomo showed up in Tanganyika to declare his determination to fight the whole idea of Southern Rhodesia independence under white rule. Viewing the deadlock, Britain's Spectator commented: "What now exists in South ern Rhodesia is a colonial situation in reverse," that is, the Africans themselves earnestly hope Britain will retain what power...
Field wants no squawks from native agitators while he tries to bring off his plan. This month his police arrested African Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo and seven other former leaders of the banned Zimbabwe African People's Union for taking part in an "illegal procession" and "obstructing police" at a protest rally, charges that could mean up to ten years in prison. With that. Field last week sent Parliament a spate of proposals that would give police broad new search and arrest powers, permit the whipping of prisoners (up to a maximum of ten lashes), and make hanging mandatory...
Widely blamed for the violence are the ragtag followers of Joshua Nkomo, burly African boss of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, whose black nationalist organizations have twice been banned since 1959, only to reappear under a new name. Mild-mannered Nkomo, who has shown up frequently to plead his case for freedom at the U.N., insists that his group has refrained from violence. But he has yet to convince the government of Southern Rhodesia's white Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead...
...Justice Sir Robert Tredgold, who resigned from the bench in 1960 in protest against earlier restrictive measures, the new laws portend "a police state." What chiefly worried whites was the likelihood that such harsh measures might simply force the African nationalists underground. This seemed to be precisely what Joshua Nkomo had in mind. His answer to the government was simple and brisk: "The bannings will not be accepted...
...partnership" with the Africans. Though such gradualism made sense, it was outpaced by events and emotions. From the start. Sir Roy (he was knighted in 1953) failed to realize that he would have to come to terms with African nationalism. He forced Southern Rhodesia's black leader. Joshua Nkomo. into exile, threw Nyasaland's Dr. Hastings Banda and Northern Rhodesia's Kenneth...