Article: Zimbabwe Whites Brace For Verdict In Racially Charged Doctor's Case

Angus Shaw
New York Beacon, The
01-20-1995
Zimbabwe Whites Brace For Verdict In Racially Charged Doctor's Case.

A white doctor accused of experimenting on poor black patients has become a hated symbol for blacks who say whites have not shed colonial, racist attitudes 15 years after independence.

Dr. Richard McGown's guilt or innocence is set to be determined Monday, a day that many of the nation's 100,000 whites dread because it could provide dramatic evidence of the deterioration of race relations here.

Race relations in Zimbabwe were once seen as a model of harmony, despite a bloody anti-colonial war, and help up as example to South Africa. However, they're now believed at their lowest ebb ...

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