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Authors: Doris Lessing

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AFRICAN LAUGHTER: FOUR VISITS TO ZIMBABWE.
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Adobe Digital Edition June 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-195201-2

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Doctor Huggins was Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia for many years. During Federation, as Lord Malvern, he was Prime Minister of the Federation for the year 1956 while Garfield Todd was Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.

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South Africa is usually referred to as The Republic.

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I am told the word ‘tribe’ is unacceptable. One should say, ethnic group. But everyone knows what ‘tribe’ means. Most people I think would find ‘ethnic group’ confusing, certainly at the time this book is being written.

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Farm animals have at regular intervals to be made to swim through a bath of chemically treated water to kill the insects which cause disease.

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It turns out that many of the Secret Police under the whites went on working under the blacks.

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The Japanese are building Zimbabwe a telephone system.

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