SEEKS INDEPENDENCE . _
Kibwai, the president of the recently formed Caprivi African National Union [caNnu], is in Lusaka soliciting the support of the Northern Rhodesia government,
The aim of the CANU is to attain self-government (independence) for the Caprivi Strip, and it is petitioning the United Nations as part. of its strategy. The _CANU is opposed, in particular, to the imposition of a Bantustan [sogregated reserve] in Caprivi.
The Caprivians number some 15, 000 people and live in the narrow tongue of land between Angola and Northern Rhodesia in the north and Bechuanaland in the south, They have close tribal and linguistic affinities to the Lozi and Makololo people of Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia, They live at a very low level of subsistence and most of the men are recruited as contract laborers for the South African mines,
The Caprivi Strip is of enormous strategic importance, too, as the South African Defense Department considers that it may be through this region that an African Liberation Army would launch its first attack on South Africa, The Defence Force, in addition to using the territory as a training ground in tropical warfare, has also equipped it with a radar station and placed units of ground troops there,
LOAN MADE TO MEET SOUTH