Word: zambia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europeans settled 75 years ago. At present half the population is under '7 and at the present rate it will double again in the next 20 years. There are more Africans who need land and jobs and the pressure on the European has increased. In addition, immigrant workers from Zambia and Malawi are continually coming to Rhodesia to seek employment on the farms. The farm wages and standard of living for Africans are higher in Rhodesia than in other parts of Africa...
...Rhodesia into special accounts held up at the bank. The London capital market, on which Rhodesia's 2,700 tobacco farmers depend, has been barred to them. A nation whose economy is precariously based on tobacco and sugar exports has lost its two best customers: Britain and neighboring Zambia, which together took $93 million (or 52%) of Rhodesian exports. Whitehall aims to force devaluation of the Rhodesian pound and make belt-tightened Rhodesians turn against Smith...
Since the country appeared completely calm, censorship seemed hardly necessary, but Smith did not stop there. To protect Rhodesia against an imagined invasion, convoys of troops were ordered to dig in along the Zambesi River border with Zambia, causing President Kenneth Kaunda nervously to declare a state of emergency and order his own small army to dig in on the other side "as a protective measure." Although the chances of a clash seemed slight, it was just the sort of ugly situation that through some unexpected fluke might lead to violence-and a need for British troops...
Whether they could actually come to power, though, is much less certain, for they lack unity and capable leadership. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda has castigated them harshly: "Call them nationalists! I call them stupid idiots who do not know what they are saying." Even in the present crisis, the two Nationalist parties do not cooperate. While they threaten lurid bloodshed, they have not been able to organize even a makeshift government in exile, much less a general strike in Rhodesia. Their weakness may well be Smith's greatest strength...
...problems. The grand dream of 1955 has fragmented into even more intense subdreams-expressed by smaller groupings such as the Arab League, the Organization of African Unity, the Organisation Commune Africaine et Mal-gache. Even within these groups, glittering chimeras give way to the hard practicality of national interests: Zambia and Malawi, dependent as they are on good relations with neighboring, white-run Rhodesia, refuse to join the African militants who demand the bloody overthrow of Ian Smith...