Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European settlers, I completed my primary and secondary school education in Rhodesia. There the only integrated education that takes place as yet is at the University of Rhodesia, and at some private secondary schools. This does not mean that the African schools are being neglected. In recent years, twenty per cent of the national budget has been appropriated for African education...
...ratio of Negroes to Caucasians in the United States is one to nine, while the ratio of Africans to Europeans in Rhodesia is 18 to 1. Such a high ratio of Africans to Europeans makes integration difficult for two reasons. Geographically, many of the Africans are liable to live far from the relatively few white population centers. Psychologically, Rhodesian whites in such a small minority are more afraid than are American whites of what integration would do to their standards and interests...
...second erroneous comparison many Americans make is between Rhodesia's government and the government of The Union of South Africa. They are not comparable. The policy in South Africa is one of apartheid (separate but equal development of the races). The policy in Rhodesia is one of integration. Both Africans and Europeans in Rhodesia swim together. They go to the same university, hotels, movies, and restaurants. They work in the same Civil Service. Fifteen out of sixty-five members of Parliament are African. As yet this integration is limited, yet it is a step in the right direction...
...home in Rhodesia is on a farm, eight miles from Salisbury. Like most other farms in Rhodesia, tobacco is our main crop; maize, groundnuts, and beans are secondary subsistence crops. The farms in Rhodesia are not only owned by Europeans but are also owned by Europeans but are also owned by Africans. According to the Central Statistical Office survey in July 1962, African farmers cultivated two and one half times as much land as did European farmers. By contrast in Kenya the Africans had to wait until there was an African government in power for farms to be handed over...
...Rhodesia is committed to a broad-based educational system much like that in the United States. This means that most of the funds for education are channeled into the primary schools. Thus it may seem to some that the Rhodesian African is getting a "waiter's education," but the government has decided to educate many people in order to build an informed citizenry. Ninety-five per cent of all eligible by age African children are in primary school...