Former Smith Minister barred
NZPA Salisbury The Leader of Rhodesia’s moderate Zimbabwe United People’s Organisation, Senator Chief Chirau, has been barred from buying a house in the all-white Salisbury suburb of Belvedere.
Chief Chirau, a former member of the Cabinet of the Prime Minister (Mr lan Smith) has confirmed that the Local Government and Housing Minister (Mr William Irvine) has refused to allow him to buy a house in the area. Mr Irvine told the Z.U.P.O. leader on Wednesday at a meeting that the
sale would contravene the Land Tenure Act, which makes white residential areas racially exclusive.
Chief Chirau said the decision made him extremely unhappy and that he felt a victim of racial discrimination.
Another nationalist leader, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole is one of about 35 blacks who have bought homes in the white suburb of Houghton Park and whom Mr Irvine has threatened with eviction.
Eviction orders were to have been served by the end of August but no move has been taken.
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