- Title: ZAMBIA: PRESIDENT KAUNDA CALLS ON MASS RALLY TO PRESERVE ZAMBIA'S INDEPENDENCE
- Date: 17th January 1967
- Summary: CROWD AND DANCERS AT RALLY (NATURAL SOF); KAUNDA SPEAKING (SOF). TRANSCRIPT: KAUNDA: "IF WE DO NOT MAKE THIS INDEPENDENCE COME HERE TO STAY, IT IS GOING TO ESCAPE FROM OUR VERY HANDS AND YOU HAVE SEEN WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN OTHER PARTS OF AFRICA, SEVERAL COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA, SEVERAL COUNTRIES IN ASIA, WHEN PEOPLE BECOME RELAXED. INDEPENDENCE
- Embargoed: 1st February 1967 12:00
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- Location: KITWE - ZAMBIA
- Country: Zambia
- Reuters ID: LVA4A2X5KV3VPLA2VAF4TQTO8N3U
- Story Text: PRESIDENT KAUNDA TOLD A MASS RALLY AT KITWE ON THE ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT ON SUNDAY (15 JANUARY) THAT THE PEOPLE MUST WORK AND FIGHT TO KEEP THEIR COUNTRY TRULY INDEPENDENT.
ABOUT 15,000 PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO HEAR THE PRESIDENT SPEAK AT HE END OF A FOUR-DAY NATIONAL CONVENTION. IT HAD BEEN HARD BUSINESS AND HARD TALKING IN THE CONVENTION HALL, BUT THERE WAS AN AIR OF FESTIVITY ABOUT THE CROWD THAT GATHERED TO HEAR PRESIDENT KAUNDA. BEFORE HE SPOKE, THERE WERE TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCES.
AT THE CONVENTION, PRESIDENT KAUNDA TOLD DELEGATES TO GO BACK TO THEIR HOME AREAS AND TELL THEIR PEOPLE WHAT HAD TO BE DONE TO KEEP ZAMBIA STRONG AND INDEPENDENT. HE TOOK UP THE SAME THEME IN HIS SPEECH AT THE RALLY...
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