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Title:Student Protest and State Reaction in Colonial Rhodesia: The 1973 Chimukwembe Student Demonstration at the University of Rhodesia
Author:Mlambo, Alois S.ISNI
Year:1995
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:21
Issue:3
Period:September
Pages:473-490
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subjects:protest
students
universities
colonialism
Education and Oral Traditions
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637255
Abstract:On 7 August 1973, African students at the University of Rhodesia (Salisbury, Rhodesia, present-day Zimbabwe) staged the most violent demonstration in the preindependence history of the University. The State's reaction to this demonstration was unprecedented; over 150 students were arrested and sentenced to prison and, thereafter, were confronted with banning orders which barred them from coming within 20 kilometres of the only university in the country for three years. This paper traces the development of the African students' protests from 27 July 1973 to the fateful 'Chimukwembe' demonstration of 7 August and explains why the students' protest developed into an anti-white and anti-State demonstration. It also seeks to understand why the government responded to African student protests as harshly as it did. It argues that the militant students' actions in 1973 as well as the State's drastic reaction were conditioned by the growing polarization within the country between the African majority and the white minority, the heightened political awareness of the African students and the determination of the State to crush any African opposition at a time when the Rhodesian government was facing mounting political, economic and military threats to its continued existence. Notes, ref., sum.
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