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...JOSHUA NKOMO, 59, is president of the domestic faction of the African National Council (A.N.C.), the most moderate of Rhodesia's black nationalist organizations. He is the grand old man of black politics in Rhodesia. A relaxed, friendly politician of the flesh-pressing school, Nkomo is the only one of the four who has lived in the country during the past year. Says he: "It is very hard to win an election from the outside...
...least militant of the black leaders, Nkomo has friendly ties with white Rhodesian businessmen and occasionally travels aboard corporate jets owned by Western firms...
...Nkomo has actively pursued majority rule in Rhodesia for a quarter-century. A former union leader (he has been a carpenter and a railway worker), he spent eleven years in various forms of detention. He was a founding member in 1952 of the once significant African National Congress and became its president; when it was banned in 1959, he resurfaced as founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), which soon became the focus of activism for Rhodesia's black liberationists. Nkomo has been the primary spokesman for Rhodesia's blacks, traveling often to Britain...
...Nkomo has strong support in the rural tribal regions and a tightly organized core of followers elsewhere. He is a friend of Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Botswana's Seretse Khama, and he is at least on speaking terms with the front-line five's two Marxist firebrands, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Agostinho Neto of Angola. With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed...
Mugabe was once a deputy to Joshua Nkomo, but in 1963 he broke with Nkomo and ZAPU to help found the rival and more extreme Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), under the leadership of the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole...