Word: nkomo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...socialism. They both agree on a program of land redistribution and on the need for an educational system geared not to Great Britain but to Rhodesia. The immediate, paramount objective of both is the deposition of Ian Smith's rebel government. The People's Caretaker Council, led by Joshua Nkomo, is seeking a solution to the present crisis through compromise; the Zimbabwe African National Union, led by Ndabiningi Sithole, wants to overthrow the Smith regime through confrontation by any possible means, including force of arms if necessary...
...Nkomo at the airport rather than Government House-a move aimed at underscoring the "illegality" of Nkomo's party-Wilson snapped that he would see Nkomo and everyone else only at Government House...
...regime to confine any suspected troublemaker indefinitely and without explanation. The African congressmen, moreover, were all nominated by essentially white parties: the two major African political organizations have long ago been banned. One is the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), whose burly leader, former Methodist Minister Joshua Nkomo, 48, has been held since April of last year at the steaming Gonakudzingwa "restriction center" near the Mozambique border. At another restriction camp at Wha Wha is the Rev. Ndabaningi ("A Lot of Trouble") Sithole, 45, 'a U.S.-educated Congregationalist
Smith was in control throughout the tour, permitted his guest from London only a fleeting glimpse of black nationalist spokesmen who oppose white rule. He was allowed three hours with restricted Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo in eastern Rhodesia's steaming Hippo Valley, two hours with another delegation in the seclusion of the ladies' powder room at a Rhodesian airbase. Scarcely had Bottomley landed in Salisbury than he was whisked off to nearby Domboshawa for an indaba (powwow) with 600 government-paid chiefs and headmen. One after another, the chiefs, who are the leaders of rural tribes but have...
Tear Gas & Truncheons. Smith's first act as Prime Minister last week was to arrest African Leader Joshua Nkomo and three officials of his People's Caretaker Council, whom the government accused of "dragging the country from crisis to crisis." The arrest triggered riots that brought white cops with tear gas, dogs and swinging truncheons into Salisbury's Highfield African Township. Before the week was out, more than 250 Africans had been arrested...