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Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org Zimbabwe News, Vol. 25, No. 3 Alternative title Zimbabwe News Author/Creator Zimbabwe African National Union Publisher Zimbabwe African National Union (Harare, Zimbabwe) Date 1994-05-00 Resource type Magazines (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, United Kingdom Coverage (temporal) 1994 Rights By kind permission of ZANU, the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front. Description EDITORIAL. LETTERS. NATIONAL NEWS: Economy to grow by 4 percent. Forlum casualty of serious split. Zimbabwe's investment drive goes to Hong Kong. Zero tillage farmers reap benefits. Bulawayo clothing industry threatened. Spectrum receives Golden World Award. Education with Production triumphs. Small Claims Courts now operational TALKING POINT: Medicine and democracy. GATT, ESAP and trade wars. REGIONAL NEWS: Cover Story: South Africa triumphs over apartheid. 10, 000 Africans die of hunger everyday. Direct investment in Africa grows. SADF withdraw from Namibia. African nations face food security problems. Land scandal rocks Tanzania. INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Clinton health plan raises questions in rural areas. New watchdog on women's rights. The comets are coming. India conducts leprosy vaccine trials. Britain honours bus conductor. Zimbabwe supports DPRK on reunification. FEATURES: Government supported national health service. Watch committees wage war on crime. DOCUMENT: Call for increased economic co-operation. SPORT: Mentally retarded athletes excelling. Poetry — Tribute to a great man. Format extent 48 page(s) (length/size) http://www.aluka.org http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.nuzr19942503 http://www.aluka.org ZANU PF ZANU PF Unity, Peace and Deveopment "ment of Information and Publicity, 14 Austin Road e 25, No. 3 1994, Registered at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper . 70Cincl. sales tax) ju. I i nq9A ;iden ,TT, ESA * Forum *1 Eimbabwe News )ficial Organ of ZANU PF MKIN". 7M I 7:F1'jMFAjj1OMM :7 WjJ W THE NEW $50 NOTE The new $50 banknote will be issued on 14th March. It retains the traditional security features which have been improved and new ones have been introduced to make the note easy to recognise. Look for these five(5) distinctive features :" CHECKLIST The Zimbabwe Birdn , Watermark. Two see-through rhinoceroses on either side which are in perfect register. The security thread with 4 3 RBZ50 printed on it. Raised print which can easily be felt by running your nail along It. Extra small print which reads 50, 50, 50 ... 2 situated to the left of the balancing rocks. The New $50 Note... the convenience of handling money Is now here. Published by R.B.Z. 7th March 1994 FRONT Contents Editorial ............ Letters ............... National News Talking Point Regional News International News Features Document Sport . .. ........................................................ ........ I................. 3 Economy -to grow by 4 percent ............................................................ 5 Forum casualty of serious split .......................................... 9 Zimbabwe's investment drivd goes to Hong Kong .................................. 13 Zero tillage farmers reap benefits ..................................................... 15 Bulawayo clothing industry threatened ...............................16 Spectrum receives Golden World Award .......................................... 18 Education with Production triumphs ........................................... 19 Sniall Claims Courts now operational .............................. 20 Medicine and democracy ....................................... 21 GATT, ESAP and tradewars 22 Cover Story: South Africa triumphs over apartheid ............................ 24 10 000 Africans die of' hunger everyday . ....... .......................... 27 Direct investment in Africa grows ................... ......... ...28 SADF withdraw from Namibia ................................... 29 African nations face food security problems .............. ..........30 Land scandal rocks Tan'zania ........................................................... 30 Clinton health plan raises questions in rural areas................ ......35 New watchdog on woimen's rights ...................................................... 36 TI * comets are coming ........................................... 36 India conducts leprosy vaccine trials .................................. 36 Britain honours bus conductor ....................... .......... .37 Zimbabwe supports DPRK on reunification ............................................ 37 GoVernment supported national health service ......... ..................... 40 Watch committees wage war on -crime .......................... ....41 Call for increased economic co-operation . .......................... 42 Mentally retarded athletes excelling ................................ 43 Poetry - Tribute to a great man .................. ............... 44 1 ~ £ Zimbabwe News is the official Organ of the Zimbabwe African National Union IZANU PFI and is produced on the authority of the Central Committee by the Department of Information and Publici'y. Jongwe Priming and Publishing Co., No. 14 Austin Road, Workington, Hararf. World Copy"'ght. C,,nlral Committee IZANU PFI. Editorial Council: Cde. N M. Shdrn ,w.r, Co,: C.C. Chimutengwende Cde C Ndhlovu Cd .- Kar.hingwe Cde. A. Sphosana Cde. M. Munyati. ZIMBABWE NEWS VOL. 25 NO.3 Zimbabwe News Official Organ of ZANU PF 0AWMA Editorial The new ball game During Zimbabwe's Chimurenga, freedom fighters supported, by the peasants paid through blood, sweat and tears for the independence which was finally achieved in 1980. In that liberation war, socialist nations expressed concrete solidarity by rendering military, political and moral support while the Rhodesian colonialists enjoyed unlimited supply of weaponry, mercenaries and finance as well as protection under the skirts of western countries on the pretext that they were defending Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole from the "communist monster". During that period, Zimbabwean "Marxist-Leninists" mushroomed in that process, the majority of whom were armchair revolutionaries. It became fashionable to be Marxist Leninist. It is a fact that a number of Zimbabweans fell prey to the colonial divide-and-rule tactics and not only assisted efforts to perpetuate colonial domination but also participated in the elimination of freedom fighters or peasants and supporters of the struggle some of whom were sold out to the enemy for a lot less than thirty pieces of silver. Come independence in 1980, the pseudo Zimbabwean "Marxist Leninists" and critics of the liberation struggle found room within the country's reconciliatory atmosphere to denounce and attackthe newly born state of Zimbabwe. The criticism ranged from accusing ZANU PF of adopting a foreign ideology to saying that the Party was missing the goal. Others went to the extent- of suggesting that if they held the reigns of power, they could deliver better and quicker. The new international situation following the disintegration of the socialist countries and the economic relations dominated by the industrialised countries has given new impetus to the original supporters of the Rhodesian regime and their local critics of the government of Zimbabwe. These pseudo Marxists and critics of the ZANU PF government are now~being told by western countries that they could be assisted financially and otherwise to come to power if they changed their slogan from being champions of "Marxism-Leninsm" to the now fashionable "democracy", "transparency", and "human rights". This time, democracy and all the terminology used are no more foreign concepts, even though the word democracy does not even exist in the indigenous languages. Of course, they are giving no credit to the scientific approach and -pragmatic way in which ZANU PF has approached problems in Zimbabwe since independence. The question The Zimbabwe News is asking is whether you were a "Marxist- Leninist" practical, pragmatic or scientific socialist, democrat, or human rights activist, for whose interests are you playing the game? Patriotic Zimbabweans are not playing games, for they know where they came from. Zimbabweans with the interests of their people and country at heart are loyal to the welfare of the nation and the true path to progress and socio-economic development. It is not a hobby one takes
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