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Title: | Rhodesia: the constitutional conflict |
Author: | Barber, J.P. |
Year: | 1966 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 457-469 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | independence political parties |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/159099 |
Abstract: | Because the conflict has so far been played out as a constitutional dispute, it is easy within Rhodesia to underrate the inherent danger of the rebellion. It is easy for Rhodesian Europeans to believe that although they may suffer a few inconveniences their life will continue very much as usual and that at some indefinite future date Rhodesia under a white minority government will be widely accepted as a sovereign, independent state. This assessment ignores the real danger of the rebellion, for beneath the constitutional dispute is a power struggle - not a struggle between Rhodesia and Britain but between the races within Rhodesia. This cannot be ignored or suppressed indefinitively, and it is this which poses the danger of the Rhodesian crisis. In this article the author traces very briefly the background to the constitutional dispute, and tries to explain why the protracted negotiations between successive British and Rhodesian Governments have failed to reach agreement. References. |