Word: swaziland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White Queen's commissioner, his head still sore, this was rebellion. He sent for machine guns, corralled Serowe's white women & children in a defense perimeter. Well-armed native troops led by British Colonel Robert Langley were flown in from the nearby British protectorates of Swaziland and Basutoland, and from the self-governing Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia...
...South Africa's anti-black and anti-British Prime Minister Daniel Malan. John Foster, Tory Under Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, stoutly insisted that Dr. Malan had nothing to do with the government's decision. But Malan hopes to incorporate into South Africa the borderland protectorates of Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland, and may use the disintegrating tribal system as a pretext to annex the territories forcibly. Said Laborite Wedgwood Benn: "The fact is that in Seretse and Ruth is the focus of the whole problem of Africa...