Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seventeen of the 23 nations in the Commonwealth are predominantly black, brown or yellow. Thus, on the basis of membership alone, the Commonwealth might be expected to deal harshly with the rebel regime of Ian Smith in Rhodesia, where 220,000 whites now rule 4,000,000 black Africans. But British Prime Minister Har old Wilson has ruled out the use of force against Rhodesia, insisting that economic sanctions will compel Smith to back down. So this week, as the 16th Commonwealth conference begins in London, Wilson faces a crisis over Rhodesia that threatens to tear apart the British-reared...
...professed shock at what he calls "the disastrous results elsewhere in Africa," Verwoerd carefully avoids unnecessary irritation at the black governments to the north. He shrewdly plays down his support of the white rebel regime of Rhodesia's Ian Smith, plays up his desire to soften the hostility of black Africa. "We leave the door of friendship open to all other African states," he said last month, "in the hope that more and more of them will in the course of time make...
...will be dependent on the South African economy for survival. Eventually he hopes to create a southern African Common Market, composed of the protectorates, Rhodesia, Portuguese Mozambique and Angola, and perhaps even black-ruled Malawi, where Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda has little choice but to be nice to the white lands that surround him. Dominating such a market, of course, would be South Africa...
...incensed did he become at their tales of British bestiality that in 1903, the year after the war ended, he moved his family to Cape Town and became a missionary in the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1912, the Verwoerds were assigned to Bulawayo, a new British town in Southern Rhodesia, and young Henk was enrolled in a British boys' school. It was his first contact with the rooineks (red necks, an Afrikaner term of derision for the British who burned easily in the hot South African sun), and he hated them...
...verdict was a landmark decision for the whites in southern Africa. South Africa can continue to go its apartheid way in South West Africa. Rhodesia's Ian Smith can take new heart in his independence fight against Britain. And the Portuguese can rest easier about their white-minority rule in Mozambique and Angola...