Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life of the Party. In Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, Concord magazine discussed a woman who works in a mine, said: "Her unique experiences as processed by a lively wit make the lady miner-when she takes off her trousers and puts on her cosmetics-the most amusing evening companion south of the Sahara...
...three British territories that make up the loosely knit Central African Federation, Southern Rhodesia comes closest to following the harsh segregationist ways of South Africa's apartheid. Negroes are barred from the Parliament, are excluded from most hotels, must use separate entrances to post offices and banks, are denied entrance to some shops, which serve them through hatches opening onto the sidewalk. By such measures. Southern Rhodesia's 211,000 whites have managed to keep a semblance of racial calm, but they have also alienated the blacks of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia from the whole idea of federation...
Englishman, Go Now! The tension began when Dr. Hastings Banda, the fanatic Nyasaland physician whose cry is "To hell with federation!" (TIME, Jan. 5), stopped over in Salisbury. As part of its new get-tough policy against nationalist agitators, Southern Rhodesia classified him as a "prohibited immigrant" and sent him on his way. As usual, Dr. Banda made political hay of it ("I am the bad boy. I went to Southern Rhodesia and spoiled their 'natives' for them"), but other African nationalists did not leave it at that. At a mass meeting in Salisbury, the fiery young general...
...Salisbury and bears the ironic name of David Blackman. Members of Blackman's Congress must swear not to "contribute to multiracialism in any form" and to resist all efforts to give Negroes more power "in their present immature state." A branch of the movement opened in Northern Rhodesia, and members began signing up in Kenya and Tanganyika...
...success." But the fact was that Welensky's own policy of "partnership"-i.e., a policy of advancing the Negro, but so slowly that the whites will hardly notice -has satisfied no one. If the Dr. Bandas wanted an end to the Central African federation, so apparently did Southern Rhodesia's whites. In the last territorial election they gave a majority of their votes to the anti-Welensky Dominion Party, which wants to cut the territory loose from its predominantly black partners and turn it into a smaller version of the Union of South Africa...