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Feb. 02, 1965 - The man who waits in a Waffle Hut.. Joshua Nkomo - Detainee at Gonakudzingwa: Gonakudzingwa - situated 400 miles from Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia- is where 450 of the country's best educated Africans are held in a restriction camp. The Government have sent them there for terms ranging from one to four years because they regard them as a danger to law and order. Leader of the detained man is Joshua Nkomo leader of the banned African People's Union Some of the detainees have their own huts - while - the others live in dormitories. Everyone reports once a week to police at the nearby station which controls the Mozambique border..So far nobody has tried to escape for while life there is rather uncomfortable - it is not unbearable. Nkomo and other leading detainees will meet British ministers Arthur Bottomley and Lord Gardiner who are arriving their today. Photo shows Joshua Nkomo standing outside his ow hut - at Gonakudzingwa - Southern Rhodesia

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