SOUTH AFRICA HOW TO WIN & LOST THE XHOSA TRIBESMEN OF TRANSKEI, 
SEEKING A PRIME MINISTER FOR SOUTH AFRICA'S FIRST / SELF-GOVERNING " 
BANTUSTAN (TIME, NOV . 29), LAST WEEK GAVE AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY 
OF THEIR VOTES TO PARAMOUNT CHIEF VICTOR POTO . BUT AS 
IT TURNED OUT, POTO DID NOT GET THE JOB . INSTEAD 
THE OFFICE WENT TO CHIEF KAIZER MATANZIMA, THE CANDIDATE PREFERRED BY 
THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT . POTO WANTS WHITE MEN AND WHITE 
INVESTMENT CAPITAL IN THE TRANSKEI, WHILE MATANZIMA, A BLACK RACIST, SUPPORTS 
THE IDEA OF AN ALL-BLACK STATE . THE STRANGE RESULT CAME 
ABOUT IN THE TRANSKEI'S EMBRYO LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, WHICH UNDER THE TERRITORY'S 
CONSTITUTION CHOOSES THE PRIME MINISTER SINCE THE ASSEMBLY HAS 64 MEMBERS 
APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND ONLY 45 DEPUTIES ELECTED BY THE 
VOTERS, THE ODDS WERE HEAVILY AGAINST POTO . EVEN SO, HE 
LOST BY ONLY FIVE VOTES . CHIEF MATANZIMA CLAIMED A CLEAR-CUT 
VICTORY, ? ' BUT IN FACT HE WILL TAKE OFFICE WITH 
THE UNEASY KNOWLEDGE THAT MOST OF THE TRANSKEI'S 1,400,000 XHOSA SEEM 
TO BE STUBBORNLY OPPOSED TO MATANZIMA'S PROGRAM OF STRICT RACIAL SEPARATION, 
WHICH HE EUPHEMISTICALLY CALLS / PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE OF THE RACES . 
