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Addressing a political rally a year ago, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda insisted that he had no intention of nationalizing the foreign-owned copper mines that account for 95% of his country's export income and half of its government revenues. Said Kaunda: "The copper mines are big business...
Reviewing the judgment, Zambian High Court Justice Ifor Evans ruled that the offense was "trivial" and quashed the conviction. In addition, Justice Evans, who is white, noted that the original verdict "did not redound to the credit of the Zambian authorities...
Down from Heaven. The High Court's ruling posed a severe dilemma for moderate President Kenneth Kaunda. He was caught between his respect for an independent judiciary and the nationalistic outrage of his black citizens over the Portuguese, who have been bombing Zambian villages in order to hit the guerrillas...
...like "some organization from heaven looking down on us," while "my people are being slaughtered by the Portuguese." He demanded an explanation from Irish-born Chief Justice James Skinner, a longtime friend, and one of 600 of the country's 65,000 whites who have bothered to become Zambian citizens. Unruffled, Skinner backed up his fellow judge: the ruling had not been politically motivated, he replied. Skinner asserted the judiciary's right to "criticize the executive or its individual servants." Kaunda's office retaliated with a statement that sounded threatening: "The President now knows where the judiciary...
...next day Kaunda's followers decided to deal with the High Court in their own way. Four hundred members of the Zambian Youth Service gathered in front of Lusaka's red-brick High Court. At the sound of a whistle, they stormed inside. Skinner and Evans locked themselves into an office while the youths pounded on the door and broke up furniture. There were more demonstrations in other towns against the High Court, and a number of Europeans were beaten. Posters reflected the angry mood: "The Only Good White Man Is a Dead One" and "One Zambia...