RHODESIA: UNITED PEOPLES' PARTY MEETS.

Record ID: 337354

  • Title: RHODESIA: UNITED PEOPLES' PARTY MEETS.
  • Date: 22nd January 1967
  • Summary: DELEGATES, NEW LEADER, AUDIENCE, RETIRING LEADER MAKING SPEECH. Initials AB/V/MGT/EEH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th February 1967 12:00
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  • Location: GWELO, RHODESIA
  • Country: Zimbabwe
  • Reuters ID: LVAAAKU87OWDM2HUPS7RJ5BZGB4T
  • Story Text: MEMBERS OF THE AFRICAN UNITED PEOPLES' PARTY WERE TOLD AT THEIR CONGRESS IN GWELO, RHODESIA THAT THEY MUST FIGHT BY ANY CONSTITUTIONAL MEANS AVAILABLE FOR MAJORITY RULE.

    MR. JOSIAH GONDO, WHO WAS SUCCEEDED AS LEADER OF THE PARTY, ALSO CHALLENGED MR. SMITH OR ALLOW ALL LITERATE RHODESIANS TO TAKE PART IN ANY REFERENDUM ON WHETHER RHODESIA SHOULD BECOME A REPUBLIC.

    HE WAS DEFEATED FOR THE PARTY'S LEADERSHIP BY MR. PERCY MKUDU, A 50-YEARS-OLD BUSINESSMAN. VOTING WAS 58-26. MR. MKUDU, WHO WAS BORN IN RHODESIA, ATTENDED SCHOOL IN JOHANNESBURG WHERE HE OBTAINED A DIPLOMA IN SOCIAL SCIENCE. AFTER RETURNING TO RHODESIA IN 1959 HE WORKED AS A WELFARE OFFICER BEFORE BEING ELECTED TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY IN 1962.
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