St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-05-18

Tom Mboya. Signed by Mboya's
successor, Peter Kibisu, the KFL
memorandum calls for an immedi-
ate speed-up in Africanization,
filling positions formerly held by
whites with Africans) a complete
revision Of wage policies and in
dustrial legislation, urgent action
to combat unemployment, the pro-
mitigation of a statutory social
security program, and a guarantee
that no future Kenya government
will interfere in trade union af-
fairs.
In its memorandum the KFL
called unemployment the most ur-
gent problem facing the country
today. 1t declared: by unem-
ployment, the number Of burglars,
robbers and idlers has swollen and
associated with social menace is
the great loss of manpower Kenya
is suffering"
Meanwhile, Mboya has announc-
ed that the KFL demands are be-
ing studied by the Government as
"a matter of urgency" He added:
The Government welcomes this
step taken by the KFL to put for
ward their ideas, and when the
memorandum has been fully stud
led detailed reply will be given"
Mboya said he had asked the
KFL to clarity a number of
points" in the memorandum which
referred to industrial legislation
and had been told that the KILL
already had committee at work
preparing answers to his questions.
Some of the proposals On legisla-
ton made by the labor group
overlapped work already under
taken by the Government, Mboya
said.
AN AFRICAN WOMAN, Sarah
Chavanduka, has repeatedly come
under heavy fire from DR.. Hast
ings Banda's Malawi Congress
Party in Nyasaland. Miss Chavan-
dulta, the first African woman
graduate of the University College
Of Rhodesia and Nyasaland who
is now teaching in Nyasaland, has
incurred the displeasure Of the
Nalawi Party press for defending
the University when it was crit
icized by Nyasaland's African Min
ister of Education.
DR.. Banda's government had an
nounced that there would be no
scholarships for Nyasa students to
the University College Of Rhodesia
and Nyasaland because the atmos-
phere there was all wrong. Miss
Chavanduke, who once during her
student years told AMP Cores
pondent Jack Watson of Sails
bury, Southern Rhodesia that she
was very happy" at the Fedora
tons multi-racial university, crit
icized both DR.. Banda and the
Minister of Education for their at
titude toward the University. Wat
son now reports that the heat has
been turned on Miss Chavanduka.
In a leading article headed
"Chavanduka Must Co." The NAL
avn News says that Africans Of
Malawi can be trough, tough and
unpleasant on matters affecting
their principles" 1t says that Miss
Chavanduka's activities cannot be
tolerated, and that when she Is
in Malawi she must do as the NAL
avis do"
1t goes on: Tn this country
among the African people, the doc
tors word (Dr. Banda) is law.
Nobody can question it and nobody
can challenge it. What the Mgwad
(The Great One) says, goes :.
I'VE cannot allow such a person
Sarah Chavandulta) to teach our
students in this country"
THE TANGANYIKA Govern
ment has rejected an offer Of
scholarships for Africans from the
Federal Government of Rhodesia
and Nyasaland. The scholarships
were for post graduate studies at
the University College of Rhodesia
and Nyasaland, the same white
controlled institution under crit
icism by DIR. Banda in Nyasaland.
African nationalists have no regard
for the Federation and its prime
minister, Sir Roy WelenslSy.
It is not surprising that the
University offer was rejected by
Tanganyika In another de-
velopment Julius Nyere, TANU
president told the TANU dele
gates annual conference in OAR
es-Salaam that If African count
ries did not help natior alist leaders
in central Africa to obtain their
rights, through violence If neces-
sary, they were countries of cow
ards"
Nyerere, generally described as
a moderate among African leaders,
appealed to the British Govern
ment to support Kenneth Kaunda,
Joshua Nkomo and DR.. Hastings
Banda 1.-THE African Nationalist
leaders in Northern Rhodesia,
and Nyasaland, respectively.