SALISBURY MEETING
Exchange Of Songs <N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SALISBURY, April 3. The Prime Minister (Mr lan Smith) sang an Afrikaans folk song at an election meeting In Salisbury yesterday as African student hecklers filed out —singing an African hymn. The Africans were ordered out of the meeting, in Sails bury’s Mount Pleasant European suburb, after repeated heckling of a speech by the ruling Rhodesia Front’s candidate for the constituency, the Defence and External Affairs Minister (Mr Jack Howman).
As they left, they sang the African nationalists’ anthem “Nkosi Sikeleii Africa,” Mr would sing an Afrikaans folk song. He was joined by party officials and supporters. Voting in the election takes place on April 10.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32265, 7 April 1970, Page 9
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