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Kwete - No! - The Veto of Four Percent of the Governed: the Ill-Fated Anglo-Rhodesian Settlement Agreement, 1969-1972 (Paperback)
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Kwete - No! - The Veto of Four Percent of the Governed: the Ill-Fated Anglo-Rhodesian Settlement Agreement, 1969-1972 (Paperback)
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The 1969 republican constitution of the Rhodesia was intended to
secure recognition for Ian Smith's 1965 UDI. Given the evasion by
significant nations of the trade sanctions imposed by the UN, the
gamble was that this de facto recognition would become de jure. But
it was unlikely because the framers of the 1969 constitution
rejected the aim of progress to majority rule through a qualified
franchise. They offered the Africans only the goal of parity of
racial representation. The common roll was replaced by a separate
African roll and a 'European' one which included the Asian and
coloured populations. The African ability to qualify for the vote
was governed by the ratio of income tax they paid in comparison to
the 'Europeans'. In 1970 Ian Smith welcomed an overture from Edward
Heath's new conservative government to re-open the Anglo-Rhodesian
negotiations. Lord Goodman succeeded in November 1972 to secure an
agreed compromise, restoring the aim of eventual majority rule. The
exiled nationalist insurgents' efforts to ignite an armed
insurgency were petering out by the time of the settlement. It
therefore fell to the nationalists in Rhodesia, bent on majority
rule, to stymie these effort. They succeeded because the British
insisted that any settlement had to be endorsed by the majority of
the people of Rhodesia. A referendum would mean a loss of face for
Ian Smith. Lord Pearce's judicial commission's assessment insisted
on 'normal political activity' forcing Smith to release a
significant number of nationalist activists from detention. The
leisurely formation of the commission gave these activists time to
organize a campaign of rejection, the result of which the Pearce
commission could not, or chose not, to ignore.
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