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Nuzn 1 9 9 5 ,,ANU PF ,,ANU PF Kt - Zimbabwe News. Official Organ of ZANU PF Department of Information and Publicity, 14 Austin Road Volump 26. No. 3 1995, Registered at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper $ 1 0 (ic. sales tax) n Chambati Sabina Thembani Jacobus de Wet Pamela Tungamirai IC. ~~1~ Vt Editorial: Letters: National News: Regional News: Features: International News: Talking Point: Sport: Contents T h e w in ner in Z im b ab w e P olls ................. .... ......... ....................................................................... ZANU PF is an unchallengeable monolithic Party ............................... C andidates w ho lost their deposits ...................................................................................................... White minister shows the lighter side of Zimbabwe .............................. Emergency taxis facing extinction . V eteran p o litician laid to rest .................................................................................................................... Will Zimbabwe embrace mercy killing............ Advertising pays dividends for Aroma .............................................................. R esults of the 1995 general elections ............... ......................................................... Ban on female circumcision ruled out .................................................. African states discuss scourge of landmines ................................................................. C O M E SA facing financial problem s .............................................................................................. SA teacher training programme inefficient ............................ ... Guruve farmer rovolutionising agriculture .................. ................... Vernacular languages in danger of dying............ B erlin recalls en d of clim atic b attle .................................................................................................... Fighting with figures in World War II N P T treaty ex p ires th is y ear ............................................................................................. .......... Kumaratunga says Tigers killed Rajiv Gandhi ............................................ Nazreen Pearce, first Asian woman circuit judge ............................... S ex life of flies - th e b ig secret ..................................................................................................... The IGADD Declaration of Principles and the challenges they pose to the problem of South Sudan - An Eritrean v ie w ............................... .................................................................................................................................... ...................................... S talin in th e g reat p atrio tic w ar ................................................................................................. African volleyball gains professional status .......................... Zambian soccer widows denied their,rights .............................................. Chronology of Mike Tyson's boxing career .......................... Colin Jackson, high hurdler Eric Cantona - Temparamental French striker ............................................ Laura Davis - winning at Golf worldwide .................................................... 0mm Zimbabwe News is the official organ of the ZimbabweAfrican National Union (ZANU PF) and is produced on the authority of the Central Committee by the Department of Information and Publicity, Jongwe Printing and Publishing Co., No. 14 Austin Road. Workington, Harare. World Copyright, Central Committee (ZANU PF). Editorial Council: Cde. N.M. Shamuyadra, Cde. C.C. Chimutengwende, Cde. C. Ndhlovu, Cde. S. Kachingwe, Cde.A. Sikhosana, Cde. M. Munyati. ZIMBABWE NEWS VOL: 26 NO. 3. 1995 Zimbabwe News Official Organ of ZANU PF 24 26 29 31 32 33 34 35 EditorI,-. The people of Zimbabwe know better Zimbabwe held its Fourth General Election on April 8 and 9 in an atmosphere of freedom and fairness. All major opposition parties and interested observers were unanymous in giving the ZANU PF government grudging approval for the peaceful manner in which the elections were conducted. Earlier predictions by all unrepresentative opposition parties and their foreign mentors that the machinery of the ZANU PF government was going to rig the elections, intimidate the electorate and unleash violence on opposition candidates and their supporters were proved to be figments of the imagination in two days of fair play in broad daylight. In 55 constituencies out of 120, ZANU FF candidates were elected unopposed. In 63 contested seats, opposition candidates lost their deposits after failing to win 25 percent of the winner's total. Thus ZANU PF faced no challenge of any consequence in 118 constituencies out of 120. Ndabaningi Sithole's ZANU Ndonga won the only two constituencies in his tribal home district of Chipinge. Even then, the two ZANU PF candidates had impressive support which enabled them to retain their deposits. As much as 60 percent of registered voters turned out to vote. This turn out is respectably high by international standards. In some so-called Western democracies, voter turn out often drops down to as low as 30 percent. When the results of the elections were announced, and even before the announcement, opposition parties and their foreign mentors made demands publicly that there should be "a government of national unity" in which all opposition parties would be invited as participants even though they had no support of the electorate. This undemocratic imposition and puerile demand was fittingly ignored by the ZANU PF government. When opposition parties and their foreign mentors saw that there was no possibility of their power-hunger being satisfied by the ZANU PF government, they held a press conference in Harare to announce that the newly elected Parliament was "bogus". Their spokesman went as far as calling upon the supporters of opposition parties to ignore all laws passed by the Fourth Parliament of Zimbabwe. True to its well known democratic tradition of giving any fool a long rope and never using heavy artillery to shoot flies, the ZANU PF government was complacently indifferent to these ravings from madmen. This indifference vexed the foreign mentors of these opposition parties. They had thought by egging on opposition parties to provoke the government, the government *would wield the arm of law and order to arrest the provocateurs. The mentors could then turn to international public opinion to spread their accustomed falsehoods that the Mugabe government is a dictatorship which puts opposition parties into prison. Even after having realised that the ZANU PF government was impevious to provocation, the foreign mentors of the opposition partiers returned to the outside world spreading the perfidious propaganda that the ZANU PF government is practising black racism' against the white population. Starting at the beginning of the second week of May, slanderous articles began to appear in British, American and 'Australian papers. The theme of all these articles was that the ZANU PF government was a dictatorship. On May 14, the British Sunday Times published a vitriolic article'by Christopher Hope slandering the government of Zimbabwe. The article alleged that the black people of Zimbabwe were harrassing whites and as a result, many whites were leaving the country. It further alleged that white men who are still in the country are living on sufferance. People who live in this country will find these statements patently false. The statements, however, were made to European readers who do not know the realities of Zimbabwe. The people of Zimbabwe know better, hence their retaining ZANU PF in power for another five years! 0 ZIMBABWE NEWS VOL: 26 NO, 3, 1995 Dear Editor, will work tirelessly to ensure that the fell because they neglected their consticountry's economic performance im- tuencies and only showed up towards I would like to congratulate the ruling proves and alleviate the difficulties be- the general elections. Party, ZANU PF, for resoundingly win- ing experienced by the people. Such ning the 1995 general elections held last problems as high commodity prices, un- Finally, I would like to call upon the soApril. That victory demonstrated that employment, inflation and high interest called opposition pa rtes to abandon opZANU PF is the only authentic political rates should be looked into. position politics and join the truly peo- organisation with the interests of the people of Zimbabwe at heart hence it has been mandated to govern the country for a further five years. I sincerely hope that the new Cabinet I also have no doubt that the new Members of Parliament will work dosely with people in their constituencies to enhance development. They should remember that some Members of Parliament who lost in the ZANU PF primary elections pie's organisation, ZANU PF for unity, peace, progress and national development. Claudius Masendeke, Seke, CHITUNGWIZA. Youths terrorising tourists Dear Editor, I am very concerned about what some youths who throng the Harare city centre selling curios are doing to tourists. There are also suspicions that some of them are conspiring with thugs who waylay the tourists and rob them. This is particularly serious in the city's First Street which has been flooded by young men who carry various pieces of sculptor. They approach the tourists and persuade them to buy their curios. Many tourists have fallen victim after losing.valid
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