Word: tshekedi
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Because soot-black young Chief Tshekedi of the Bamangwato tribe ordered a white man flogged, he was banished from his country by Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans. Acting High Commissioner for Bechuanaland (TIME, Sept...
Last week Admiral Evans was back in Bechuanaland. Thousands of grinning black tribesmen gibbered and cheered as he received Chief Tshekedi. Under the same withered figtree where the sentence of suspension had been read, the Admiral cleared his throat...
...Tshekedi," said he, "your banishment was pronounced solely because the law does not allow native courts to try white men even though the white men are living in tribal territory. We have had no thought that the white man in the case did not deserve the punishment. ... In view of your statement that you will always work in harmony and loyal cooperation with the administration His Majesty's Government have terminated the period of your suspension...
...Chief Tshekedi, backed by a corps of lawyers, argued his case most fluently, adding considerably to the brilliance of the scene by appearing throughout the trial in a pair of pink-striped pajamas from Bond Street. The hero of the Antarctic mopped his brow under the withered fig-tree and gave judgment: 1) Lewd Phineas was banished from Bechuanaland forever. 2) For daring to punish a white man, Chief Tshekedi was removed from the Bamangwato tribe, exiled from his tribal lands. Admiral Evans pronounced the verdict on Chief Tshekedi as sympathetically as possible...
While Chief Tshekedi appealed the decision to the Colonial Ministry, his mother, the Dowager Queen of Bamangwato, cabled King George...