Word: rhodesian
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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...
...meet this and other pressures the Rhodesian government has initiated measures to increase African participation in Parliament. In 1962 a "B" voter's roll was created which lowered the qualifications needed to vote. As a result, 15 Africans were voted into Parliament...
Despite these measures, there exist today two great threats to Rhodesian peace and progress: the white Rhodesian extreme rightists and the African extreme leftists. The tragedy is that world pressure is driving these two minority groups further and further apart. World pressure on the European government has allowed the African extremist to convince many more of his fellow Africans that the extremist cause is right...
...final tragedy is that world pressure has crippled the white Rhodesian moderate. Those few citizens who still bother to openly criticize the government are practically powerless. Most others have given up trying or have begun to feel that while their country is being threatened by hostile forces from without, it would be tantamount to treason to voice an opinion against the government. Whereas just this summer I heard a Rhodesian lady say, "If I was an African, I would be right in the very front line fighting," now there is nearly complete white solidarity behind the government...
Although I consider myself to be a moderate and have tried to be as objective as possible in this article, I admit that I am emotionally involved in this particular area because I am a Rhodesian by birth. The best hope I can see for the future is that my generation may turn out to be more enlightened than that of my elders. They saw the African in his primitive state when they first settled in Rhodesia and cannot quite conceive of him now as ruling the country. An example of this was my sister's bringing an African girl...