Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mane Demand. In Umtali, Southern Rhodesia, caddies at the Hillside Golf Club demanded an increase in their fees after two lions were seen near the clubhouse and a lioness padded down the sixth fairway...
What About Cromwell? At Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, where his plane landed for a brief stop, he was detained by immigration officials for questioning. When he emerged from the examination room, his plane had left, and there was no other due to go to Nyasaland for two more days. But Dr. Banda made the most of his stay. At an airport press conference, he bluntly declared that he had no use for moderates. "What about your Oliver Cromwell?" he shouted at British reporters. "Was he a moderate? No. He was a fanatic." Then, gesturing wildly, he exclaimed: "I'm ready...
...meeting, he exhorted 3,000 wildly cheering fans: "Go to your prisons in your millions, singing Hallelujah." "Kwaca!" he cried to indicate the "dawn" of freedom. "Ufulu!" he roared, his face twitching, and the crowd roared back, "Ufulu! Ufulu! [freedom]." "My brothers and sisters in the hell of Southern Rhodesia," he cried, "I am prepared for anything. Even my ghost, my ashes will fight federation. Are you with me?" When the cries of "yes, yes" died down, Banda continued. The British, he said, wanted federation. "Why? So we can be herded into reserves like animals in our own country...
...mean to get out of their damned federation," he said later. "You have today all the reactionary tories buying land in Southern Rhodesia-Lord So-and-So and the Duke of This-and-That-20 to 50 servants. They cannot do that in Britain, because 1945 finished that. There are European people in this country who think they must be lords and masters, and there are Indians who think they are better than we are. Well, that type of European and that type of Indian might as well pack up and go home now. We mean...
When British Distance Star Gordon Pirie was invited to compete in a track meet at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, the most logical Rhodesian to race against him was Yotham Muleya, a 19-year-old apprentice garage mechanic who earlier this year had set a national three-mile record. But Muleya is a Negro. This was enough for South Africa-born William DuBois. a dedicated white supremacist. As chairman of the Southern Rhodesian Amateur Athletic and Cycling Union, he forbade Muleya's competing...