Students Question Rhodesian Regime
Rhodesian independence was declared illegal by a Rhodesian student at an open forum at the Fiery Furnace Friday night.
Jonathan Mahlanza, Utmali, Rhodesia, senior, said Great Britain still had the responsibility of making the Smith government talk to Africans.
Earlier Friday several African students presented a petition to the British consul in Kansas City urging Britain to take a firm stand against the rebel government.
ALSO PARTICIPATING in the forum were John G. Giduwu, Jinja, Uganda, senior, and Eben Kawadza, African graduate student. About 40 other students observed the informal discussion.
Those who talked obviously did not support the Ian Smith regime, because the discussion did not concern whether Britain should act, but how.
Mahanza, speaking of democracy, said, "The West has taught us that, yet the West has denied us that."
He gave a brief history of Southern Rhodesia, citing the original intent of Cecil Rhodes to acquire gold mining rights and the development of the colonial government.
LOBENGULA. King of Matabele, gave mining rights to the British South Africa Company, Mahlanza said, but was exiled in 1893.
In 1923 when the Union (now Republic) of South Africa gained independence, Southern Rhodesia was given a choice of either becoming a part of European-dominated South Africa or remaining a colony.
"Rhodesians chose to be a colony rather than part of South Africa." Mahlanza explained.
In 1964 the European-dominated Parliament asked Great Britain for independence, but did not get
it, Mahlanza said. The result was the rebel Smith regime.
MAHLANZA described Smith's policies as colonial and exploitative. He said Smith denies educational opportunity to many of those who want it.
The Smith government rules by military strength, but the Africans have force of numbers, he said. He called the situation dangerous, saying, "You cannot deliberate at gunpoint."
To combat the situation Mahlanza said, "We feel Britain must use force to put down the rebellion."
In a similar statement, Kawadza said if Britain does not act to prevent a racial upheaval, the African states will start a war based on skin color which will spread.
When the possibility of alliance between the Republic of South Africa and the Smith regime in Rhodesia was mentioned the students said the situation would call for United Nations intervention. As long as only Britain and Rhodesia are involved it is not an international affair, they said.
An American student questioned the validity of British authority, asking what the relationship of Britain with the Republic of South Africa would be if Britain crushed Rhodesia's regime.
The answer was that there was no relationship between Britain and South Africa.
No one opinion held everyone. But the majority agreed that Europeans and Africans must learn to live together.
"The whites made a great contribution to the technology of the country, but both races took part," Mahlanza said.
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