REACH INTO YOUR POCKET TO HELP MAKE ZIMBABWE AN ISSUE INTERNA brutal attack eve of the elections.
THE joke now doing rounds in white circles is that a Rhodesian patriot is someone who can't get his or her money out of the country.
This is an indication of the depth demoralisation among settler population and some way towards explaining why elections are taking place this week — not as the gateway to majority rule, but as white racism's final backdoor trick.
Since the internal settleare having to what it is they are defending.
So far the government there has little change in any direction..
I was told that 54 per cent of the whites in the armed forces are 'new Rhodesians' other words, mercenaries, who cannot be guaranteed loyal government.
There have already been incidents since the settlement Rhodesian conscript soldiers have refused to put their lives at risk. As a result, large areas or we country are simply being abandoned to the guerillas.
Socialist Challenge 19 April 1979 page 12 Zambia. It is On these two pages we look at Zimbabwe on the Francis Рут, the Foreign Affairs spokesperson, the argued in a recent speech that:
tere is to be an election, based on universal which. will lead establishment of majority government. Majorand ity the acceptable to the Rhodesian goes people as a whole has been the governments for fifteen years.' That statement contains a number of downright lies. British policy, for Civilians find with at least two masters.
ask woman travelling to a church meeting permission of both the local been guerilla commander and the district commissioner.
AI civil level
administration rocked by the financial scandal involving the heads sanctions-busting black tion. It is alleged that, besides using illegal methods SELICIOTS. were using the same methods to enrich themselves. By and large whites numbed by the turn of events. The propaganda in the press, on television and on radio is as strident as ever, but businesshas never been concerned with anything other than regularising relations with the Rhodesian regime.
Phrases like "majority rule' and 'universal meaningless in the context of the present elections. All black opposition is banned and has Deen twen Tory struggle. The election takes place the CHECECIL since 1965 and suffrage, to the under martial law black There is no (rendering academic most of arrangements the discussion over whether or not blacks and whites should be on a common roll which means that ballot-rigging will be simple.
Twenty-eight seats example, reserved for "Europeans', the themselves men and civil servants who have to plan for the future are planning for defeat hopeless kind of way. did not meet Rhodesian battle could be the CATECHE COUNT booked. If it were not for organisa- legilation preventing it, many whites to have left already. Despite the they COSBON was illegal up to 60,000 whites will the are months after December.
Scottish missionary James Wilkie, writing in the Times, 24 July 1978.
remaining Twenty poll. -The suffrage are There are into armed of which has existed MInE second of the country electoral roll rolls.
the will be government commends it'. in a one white believed the Asian Front government won on the owards ningi Sithole, fully Jeremiah Chirau.
Chirau and would BLOUSE told that African (ZANU), Trump of followers.
for tribespeople elected by whites in a separate region.
other eight are reserved out of the common roll'. In 16 out of 20 white Zimbabwe, seats lan Smith's Rhodesian African Front is standing unopposed. (ZAPU)
about 270,000 whites in Zimbabwe and 6.8 million blacks. That works out at roughly 'one African, one about vote; one white, seven votes.' telling ratio can so-and-so is doubled to take into account such a tribe.' the fact that whites vote twice — once on each of the separate since The international supporters "internal settlement, such as the Tories, claim that it would lead to the complete end Peter of white rule within ten years. Statesman This is a lie too, simply refuted by the text of the settlement itself, which provides for an end to white rule after at least' ten years and then only if a commission reThe 'internal settlement' was signed on 3 March 1978 as ai agreement between the Rhodeand black leaders, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Rev Ndabaand Chief government no-one ever thought otherwise. Sithole is a former leader of the Zimbabwe National Union who forfeited his position by his collaborationist terrible policies and was left with s But Muzorewa was the white up the regime's great hope. They had no doubt that he could deliver votes of in the Umtali In a recent pamphlet on media coverage the Zimbabwe Union comments: *They have the impudence to accuse us of tribalism when it is they who cannot write a single thing Zimbabwe without their readers that such-andIn this regard the regime's racism was its own undoing was incapable admitting that the population was swayed by politics. But that is what has happened.
Taylor -In the recently reported Umtali that Muzorewa was shipping in busloads of supporters from Salisbury to It was after learning about Cecil Rhodes, the leader of the settlers, that Joseph understood for the first time the real meaning of the CURE He discovered statements by Rhodes which showed him to be a racist: "1 believe in my race... The non-civilised races must disappear... every acre added to our territory provides for more of the English race."
This racism was the root and justification of his desire to conquer the whole of Africa.
He was also spurred on by his Agreed for wealth. He told the British Prime Minister:
...if we do not take and open world which are at present Grey's scouts — the mounted anti-guerilla patrol.
pack his meetings, while his former adherents now talked of the Patriotic Front guerillas Taylor reports that missionaries tell stories that would be treasonable if overheard in Salisbury' of popular support for the guerillas and cooperation between guerillas and missionaries.
The level of commitment blacks feel towards the regime can be gauged by the number of them in the armed forces Since the introduction of the black call-up last year only about 2-3,000 of the 30-40,000 immediately liable have appeared at the recruiting offices British press reports hardly ever mention that in the bulk of the rural areas there is a dual power between guerillas and army. In the South-west devoted to barbarism we shall shut out the world's trade.' He openly admitted that he preferred "land to niggers', and speaking of David Livingstone, missionary, *philanthropy is all very well in its way, but philanthrop and five per cent is much Such was the nature of the man the whites looked up to. His statue was prominent in country that bore his name and would continue to do so until the people could reclaim it as Zimbabwe -FROM Black Fir Ac Rhodesia, by Micheal Raeburn.
Lands, when no govern the Tribal Trust ment men are around, Aricans are frank, less guarded the Special Branch and bearer rewarded for trouble.
Here, the sentiments are the same: we support the guerillas because they are our children; they are the ones fighting for Zimbabwe their battle is our battle, the transitional govern ment has done nothing for us.
All this they say terrorist guns at their heads as the government would have the rest of the world believe.
TV producer Peter Tay t returned from a visit Zimbabwe, writing in the New Statesman on 19 January 1979.
region around Bulawayo, for example, ZIPRA, the armed wing of ZAPU, must give its permission before even the bus runs. ZAPU strategy is based on the prospect of a relatively quick military victory and it has been responsible for the more spectacular armed tions.
In line with this it still keeps the bulk of its armed personnel across the border in Botswans Zambia. ZANLA, 8П0 ZANU's army, has different perspective of longed civil war, has far more guerillas inside the country, decline. Houses empty because of emigration - there is no demand for the construction industry. And the country is no longer the tourist attraction it was Those who stayed used to refer to white emigration as the his "chicken run' - those went were scared to face up to guenlas. Now it is 'owl run' - the wise thing to de.
It is not just the military threat which has this effect. For example, taxpayers been stung no compulsory three-year loan for military spending National Defence Levy The 'internal guarantees the maintenance of the presentite enre ine white and populations hold roughly half and half, despite the massive disproportion in numbers.
The white farmers" opposition to the Anglo-American settlement plan rests largely on the fact that it is tailored to the needs agribusinesses such as Lonrho and Liebig. Under this plan there would be no handover of land to the black people but яс- the small settlers would be squeezed out all the same.
The greater the Front's military advances the less likely is any compromise. So, the white farmer reasons, the the end is nigh. pro- The internal then, is a desperate vote for the status quo, based are standing IN Michael Raeburn's Black Fire, the guerilla Kumbi is sentenced to addresses the judge:
'You are not a judge, you are a policeman paid by an illega who regime. You have the power to your judgement, just as I do not *You may be happy to see me directly die, but your joy will be shortlived. people country are fed up with you and your people. They see you for what you are called the government, in other words, a bunch of tyrants, and they are settlement" determined to get rid of you •We freedom fighters will see to it that you go, dead or alive.
You are a fool to think the black on the faint hope that with a respectable vote, an increase in repression, more South African military and economic aid, and a Tor multinational London, the Rhodesian Front might just through.
That looks improbable, but the danger destruction which the state could cause in its death Patriotic throes. The recent escalation of the war into Angola, which doesn't even Zimbabwe, may be a sign of worse to come. The gun law settlement wielded by the of Sithole and Muzorewa is a symptom of the anarchy and death and people socialist revolution.
possible for us to lose. the revolution will me to SECVOLULIOLE a minority continue in office.
decay in white Rhodesia.
government in scrape rights of people. now ir the For all racist border once said: private armies liberators'.
days he was right. regime will protect you. There UGANDA are over five million of us and only a handtul of you. You are outnumbered twenty to one.
*The guerillas are leading the of this country in a THE are fighting for a bettor way of life.
This is what our people want. It is therefore scientifically im- Uganda.
*Those who are opposed to swept away by it. It is an honour for die fighting for *Thirteen Patriotic Front Sup- exposés porters have been sentenced to death since the 'internal settlement. Under both Smith's and the Anglo-American settlement plans the present judges would African the And worst of all a possible British military intervention on the pretext of putting an end to this chaos would bring further bloodshed and destruction, as first well as denying the democratic dictator, the Zimbabwean Leyland trucks to these victory for the liberation forces Uganda is urgent and assistance for them a pressing task for the household movement around A black Zimbabwean leader Kampala, 'We are our own His name was Ndabaningi Sithole. In those surely STIESBE press has predictably not drawn any of the obvious conclusions from eight years of dictatorship in Secretly they are probably bemoaning the fact that Amin's overthrow means the end of a rich vein of racist No doubt there will be lots of of Amin's investigations of who was responsible for Amin will be rather thinner on the ground. frican tries and at es Rifles and School of Infantry in Wiltshire, his torture of Kenyan rebels in 1950s, and the role of British and Israeli intelligence in organising his 1971 coup will all be conveniently forgotten.
WINeMEERAE
British Tory government was to recognise the the sale of British Land Rovers and Amin's army, the massive British investments in (ICI, Dunlop, and Barclay's Bank are among the names involved), and the weekly whisky run Stansted airport to which was only stopped when it became clear that Amin was going to fall.
The very manner of Amin's departure bore the marks of imperialism's responsibility for the state of African politics. I an indictment of colonialism that its afternoon session will be in English. Demonstration, 2,pm, National Trafalgar Square. March to Iranian Embassy.
COLUMBIA THREE thousand Colombians have been imprisoned in the last three months under the Statute of Security.
While other Latin American regimes clamp down on the workers movement and leftwing opposition by destroying all vestiges of democracy, the new Colombian government of Turbay Ayala has maintained the facade of parliament and a two-party political system.
But this mechanism has been renacrea poweriess. runchons which once belonged in Congress - such as amendments to the penal code - have been taken by the OYCI execuave Under the Statute of Security military judges assume the same power as civil tribunals. *Political al dineso such demonstrations, can be prosecuted under common law.
The government has also implemented article 28 of the Constitution, which applies in a "state of war'. This means that anyone can be arrested on suspicion with no real right of defence.
Those found guilty by the military tribunals are imprisoned on the prison island of Gorgona. Friends and relatives
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THE Smith regime in Rhodesia has again launched a on neighbouring
accidental that this comes at the same time as it is trying to convince the world of its good intentions by holding 'majority rule' elections. That was always the tactic: a combination of fraud and vicious repression.