attitude of the Patriotic Front leaders!
the Geneva conference in 1976, day of the conference.
liberation movement MPLA. constitution came into force, obstacles to freedom which he had listed the Geneva conference remained.
To quote one example, on that very day, I June 1979, two brothers aged 16 and 19 were arrested at their home oy tz wille memocrs or ine regine s security forces. Mr. Leavit and Mr. Benchard Katumba were sentenced to death at an in camero trial by a special court martial, or military court. They were convicted of carrving arms ot war,: a charge which both denied. THE LONDON conference on Zimbabwe is into its second week with little settled beyond the agenda. What kind of regime is it that Bishop Muzorewa presides over? And what is the Below we print a section from a new report produced by the International Defence and Aid Fund on 'Political Prisoners in Rhodesia in 1979' which details how Muzorewa has maintained intact the repressive regime which he so bitterly denounced at We also print extracts from speeches by JOSEPH MSIKA, secretary general of ZAPU, and EDGAR TEKERE, secretary general of ZANU, at a solidarity meeting organised by the Limbabwe Emergency Campaign Committee on the opening Finally, we mark the death of the leader of another African Agostinho Neto of the han ever before the years since its introduction in 1960 to crush African political activity at the grass-roots level, remains on the statute book.
Bishop Muzorewa's has on numerous occasions indicated TOBE it has every continuing to make use of this and other legislation. At the beginning of later July 1979, approved the national State of Emergency (in force since shortly before UDI in 1965) for a regime's history that this has occurred Angolan government intention of parliament unanimously extension the This is the first time in the illegal measures homes destroyed by Rhodesian forces, leave the zone under attack.
country's economy.
BISHOP ABEL MUZOREWA expense of the civilian governmental machinery, and add new and harsh to regime's existing arsenal of security laws.
Under martial law, the army, police and other security forces have been unprecedented powers to arrest and detain suspects without charge, to search, confiscate and property and livestock wilde wara and to conduct political trials before military courts authorised to impose. the death August 1979 Commonwealth state meeting constituțional conference on Rhodesia would be this time in London. It appeared that as far as the illega political prisoner. history was about to Political trials under the Law and (Maintenance) Act have continued since the 1976 Geneva talks despite claims by the regime that an amnesty programme has been THESE photos show the legacy of the Rhodesian raid into Mozambique jusi before the start of the constitutional conference in London. Above left is the wreck of a bridge in Gaza province; on the right Mozambican civilians, their The raid was faithfully presented by the media as an attack on ZANU military targets. In fact its purpose was altogether different: to cripple food supply in Mozambique as part of a consistent effort to undermine the The region where the attack took place, the Limpopo valley, produces not just rice, the staple crop, but also yams and tomatoes. Main targets for the Rhodesians were the large warehouses where the rice crop is being stored, and bridges on the main supply outlet, the Chokwe-Maputo road.