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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 9. 1966.

[introduction]

Is New Zealand the number one enemy of Africa in the United Nations? Tanzania made this allegation six short weeks ago. Now, Mr. Lloyd Kotsho Dube, United Nations representative of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, (ZAPU) asks whether New Zealanders have betrayed Africa's trust.

When examining the Rhodesian crisis, it is useful to know the factual background of the system of government that has been ruining Rhodesia for the last 43 years. I will here briefly state the international and purely Rhodesian factors that continue to be puzzlement to those whose governments encourage and give succour to Rhodesian illegality.

When Examining the Rhodesian crisis, it is useful to know the factual background of the system of government that has been ruining Rhodesia for the last 43 years. I will here briefly state the international and purely Rhodesian factors that continue to be puzzlement to those whose governments encourage and give succour to Rhodesian illegality.

The African people of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) have noted with regret the performance of the New Zealand Government over the issue of the illegal regime in Salisbury. We fail to understand the intentions of those who condone the faulty negotiations now taking place between British officials and the Smith rebels. The material error in encouraging the talks as are taking place is that one lends recognition and legality to an oppressive and unrepresentative regime.

The New Zealand Government by voting against a resolution committing the international community to ending repression in Rhodesia, showed itself in league with a brutal regime whose instrument of government is the gun and police brutality.

The Smith regime together with protagonists of its policies have fed the world with a series of distortions about the intentions of the African majority.

They have equated Majority Rule with Communism. They have sought the support of Western governments, New Zealand included, by appealing to kith and kin sentiment. Their efforts towards perpetuation of racial privilege have surprisingly been complemented by the West's support for Britain's policy of settler appeasement in Rhodesia.

It is support of Britain's policy of negligence which features these nations as open enemies of Africa and the rights of the indigenous population of Rhodesia.