Word: swaziland
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...sides by white Africa (Rhodesia on the east and apartheid-minded South Africa and its South-West Africa dependency on the south, west and north), Bechuanaland is tied economically to the nations that every true black nationalist hates. With the two other British High Commission territories of Basutoland and Swaziland, Seretse's domain is joined with South Africa in a customs union, uses South African currency, and in the past has cooperated in transportation, trade, health and general development with Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd's regime. Indeed, some 30,000 Bechuanas depend on employment in the South African gold...
...four more days at their headquarters. He was then released but kept under constant watch to prevent him from leaving the country. But last July, during a state visit to Mozambique by the president of Portugal, Americo Thomas, Sigauke slipped out of Lourenco Marques and across the border into Swaziland where he was met by Frelimo agents. A few days later Sigauke and his friends daringly recrossed the border and stood smiling in a crowd of African peasants as Amerigo Thomas rode past. "Of course we could have shot him," said Sigauke...
...Sigauke was by now too important to risk being captured. An English friend in Swaziland arranged for him to be driven, non-stop, across South Africa by Land Rover and into the Bechaunaland Protectorate. From there he crossed into Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) and made his way to join the other Mozambican revolutionaries in Tanzania. There he became Frelimo's secretary for internal organization within Mozambique. Because of his knowledge of the secret police, he now directs the Frelimo agents within the country...
...million, employs 30,000 Africans and 2,000 whites in countries that range the political and racial spectrum from apartheid South Africa to black nationalist Zambia. Its $42 million in annual sales comes from a vast array of enterprises: mining projects and ranching in Rhodesia, land speculation in Swaziland, forestry and the new pipeline in Mozambique, sugar and tea plantations in Malawi, coal mining in South Africa, sisal plantations in Tanzania and breweries, newspapers and prospecting rights in Zambia. Lonrho is also planning an $11 million fertilizer plant in Rhodesia, has proposed and is promoting what could be its biggest...
...million for industrial imports, railways and telecommunications. Pakistan is next with credits of $242.7 million, $58 million of it for the Indus Basin development. IDA has also lent to emerging African nations a total of $72 million for such projects as a 112-mile, all-weather highway across Swaziland and school construction in Tanganyika. Latin America has been granted nearly $100 million to build transportation and agricultural facilities and to improve municipal water supplies...