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0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0~ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 sl=i :;IJ5 14//6.1/ ZAPU OFFICE: BC DAR ES SA )X:20.128 .LAAM TELEPHONE MARKET E: 21770 STREET EDITORIAL PIME MNITER TO PRIME. MINISTER TALKS In his raly to a question ly Jo Grimond the Liberal Party Leader, Bottomley the Commonwealth Secretary pvinted out that future talks on the issue of Zimbabwe (Southern ) will be conducted between the Rhodesia settler Primmer and the British Prime Minister. Nothing was mentioned about the African Peopl'os leadership or its role in the anticipated future talks. This decision clearly exposes Britain's complicity and stubborness of mind not bec-tuse we want to Ie included in pass-tine delegations to London f-,r fruitless talks Those were things of the past since such dolocatLoca have been told one and the soae thing. But Bottonley should not have made such a blunderous remark in view of the prevailing situation in Zimbal-we because such remarks can only be intended to strengthen the settlers' demands for minority independence. Bottomleyls reply indicates a compromise between the British Governnent and the' settler regime of which, by itself, is a betrayal of the 4,000,000 workers and peasants of Ziababwo. It is a betrayal because the future of the 4,000,000 people of Zimbabwe cannot be decided by a man who represents less than 2C,OO00 pet lers. Although Ian Smith is supposed to be the Premier of S. Rhodesia he cannot be taken as a representative of the Zimbabve people who never voted him into power and above all, who have been denied the T. right to vote. If Britain's hopes cf finding a solution will L- based .n such talks between Smith and Wilszn, then Britain will be in for a big surprise. Bottomley has sung to many lullabies during the past few months he has been- Co1onwealth-Secretary These have ranged from 7 . LS LONG LIVE HATRED AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND COLIALISM !111!11 MAR 2 II@~' 0 0 0i r0 0

"One Rhodesia Nation" to finding an acceptable solution to both . .... parties. We have said time and again that what we want is not an improvement of the existing society but the foundation "of a new one, Bottomley should Aot therefore, try to justify the British Governnent's Ail sinister plans by shouting all the meaningless ideas that he has in mind. , We have made our stand quite clear and the British Government beti should no t. -ubt - d - o rV i f at between the British Government and Ian Smith will not be binding All ,n our part and we shall resist all such moves by all means at our disposal until the.forces c,f settler oppression and exploitation have been routed in Zimbabwe. British Capitalists have mad oit the country aplyground for exploitation and we are nA going to let this pathatic state of affairs continue. pos Britain's insistence that it cannot intervene since that will set be a violaticn Df the 1961 constitution is a blalant lie. Facts cry to out too loudly against this lie. Britair? still has the powers to intervene in Rhodesian affairs by virtue of the right of veto which the British Government holds. We have taken the case .f British be Guiana as a good example in the past but this has not been able to tb convince the British diehards. We need not warn the British Government about the dangers f 1 involved in the proposed Prime Minister to Prime Minister talks. This is a betrayal and as s'uch it is a signal to the 4,000,,-000. workers and peasants of Zimbabwe to rise against the settler regime' in order to defeat British imperialism and colonialism. b *. - . T**.V...;~ cn i t I ouud T m 5.

Spannish pelegation For Rhodesla The settler regime of Ian Smith has now embarked on a course which will not only ensure settler minority independence but will also :.I-*Ont .an QOOjOIIO crisis in the event of a fake unilateral declaration betireen the seetler regime and the two fascist regimes of South Africa and Portugal. These pacts are intended to cement the Grand Alliance of the three racist minority regimes. It is now obvious that another fourth power will ache into the picture and this is France.Spain. Prepanrtions are under way for a delegation to visit Salisbury in the near future to explore the possibility of using Spain as a dumping pit for the Rhodesian settler exports in view of the threat by some Commonwealth countries to apply economic ianctions against Rhodesia in-the event of a U.D.I.To what extent Spain will be aLe to co-o:errato with these barbaric regimes, remains to be seen. But Franco Spain will definitely be dragged into an agreement where-by she will have to supplement these regimes with arms, eqdipment -and even militia. This will place Spain in a critical position where-by she will share the wrath of the African people with the settler regime -f Ian Smith the fascist regimes of Verwoerd and Salazar thus weakeninc herself in the eyes of the world opinion. The settler regime has employed %ll methods of trial and error but without any success. Now Inn Smith has decided t prepare ground for the rec6gniti.n of white settler minority independence. All the delegations which have visited Salisbury in the past few months have come in the gmise of trade missions and some have even posed as tourists. Many military pacts have been signed in this way and many more will be signed under the sanie pretext. But these will not in any way stop the just revolutionary struggle of the Zimbabwe people. No man can go against the trend of history unless he is supper human. All attempts by Ian Smith and his gang of paid fanatics to thwart the struggle for liberation will fail and the revolutionary struggle will emerge victorious over the settler forces of oppression and exploitation and over the evil farces of British imperialism and colonialism. We are fighting ,I just war and the settlers are fighting an unjust war. It is for this reason that our patriotic forces are assured of a resounding victory. The British Government is part and parcel of the whole scheme but to save its face it has got to channel its aid to the settlers through some other sources. Cont*.2 LONG LIVE HATRED AGAIS'T IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM 1111111

Brtainoill _.1r ll hbrorimes perpetrated for the past seventy years. It was through .ritain that the whole Zimbabwe nation was enslaved and continues to be enslaved. But Britain can now shamefully point at Ian Smith who is just a puppet of the very Britishi mperialist Govefnent. We would. like to warn all these people and Governments who have aut in support of the settler dictatorship 'of Ian Smith and Britaints policies of exploitation and pjlunder that tie day will. come when they"ill regret" their bart in the plot intended to keep 4,00,000 workers and peasants of Zimbabwe in perpetual slavery. That day is not far off. Giving aid to a dying forqe will not achieve them anything except an ever-lasting hatred by the people of Zim:'abwe. We are determined to crush the settler dictatorship at all costs and British imperialism and colonialism will be crushed too. We have been betrayed, but this is not our fate, it is the beginning of a new phase in our revolutionary struggle which.has got to be the decision factor. T&FA2'. OF iAHODzSIANS OF AIL COLOUi, L14 LARGJ&LY IN gHEIR OWN HAN: D&* BO£P.OpvJ.EY The British Commonwealth Secretary, Bottomley, admitted on his return to London that a solution was remote in Zimbabwe. This open admission justifies our unreserved condemnation of Bottomley, holiday trip to Zimbabwe which has been able to cool down the tempers in some political quarters outside the boarders of Zimbabwe. Does this admission not justify our adoption of a militant line in order to overthrow the settler regime by revolutionary means? a -i people * have been reluctant to support materially our revoluw tionary struggle with the hope that the British Government was going to grant majority rule to the people of Zimbabwe. This pronouncement by Bottonley should be evidence enough to each and everyone that majority rule. will never be achieved through peaceful means. The British Government is of the opinion that social evolution will Provide a solution. This day-dreaming attitude has teen aclaimed by many British M.PS .and capitalists who see -in it further chanced-of British exploitation and plunder. The whole manoeuvre is calculated in such a way that our country and people will be left completely helpless because'the economy will have len restored for~thosolo bonofit of Britain. Tho ball has boon thrown back to us and what is now loft is to got it rolling tawt and this noods something more than writing on papor im carrying placards. Tho rovolutionary course which is still in its infancy has Sot to be strongthoned on all fronts. Material and, financial aid is whore our struggle is lacking. It i true to say that revolutios have"beon staged rCone# ... "'' oo, eol5 by bake handed patriots who in the long run acquired the necessary weapOns from sources within that prticular country.. But the revolutionary struggle vary from. country . ty co 'rybocauso of the gegra'hi al factors, socialenvironment and other factors which also contribute to t-h, Su.cu o' a. revolutionary uprisinrl.. This does not noa that our conditions ar, unfavourablu for s'uch a revolutionary uprisinq. hav got our oez-plQ inside the country and these will form the very nucleus of our patriotic force. we havc said time and again that no nobody else besides ourselves will fight for our liburatin and national Independence. The burden falls four squiroly on our shoulders but what we seek is the suport of all peace loving people of the world so that we do not feel isolated in the dark hours of our struggle. The stubborn attitude adopted by the British government is a clear indicatir,n of what is erpected -f us in our struggle against white settler domination and British imperialikm ant colonialism. The struggle will be tough since both the settler regime and Wilsonts Government will use all means in order to suppress our revolutinary struggle. Dut we shall resist by all means at our disposal for we shall not submit meekly like sheep. Bottozlcyls statement sh :uld have read " The fate of the Africans of Zimbabwe lies in their own hands'. This is an open challenge to us and we accept it in tote. Victory for our revolutionary struggle will-be determined by our own vigilance and determination. But one; thing. is certain and that-, is the overthrow of the settlef dietatorship: in Zimbabwe and the, establishmont of a peoplest Govornnent based on true democracy and justice for all who are prepared to contiflu dh Xi. taa i ±~ rli ml~d fl' ew .a col onialism. LONG LIVE HARDAA1IT pIMEALISM AND COLONIA11si 1 I ' uI I I-tiIi Li I I I£

(4) II S IDE ZIBAW prosentin a Brief S imbab Politics. The struL, ;le for liberation in Zimbabwe erao to a head when the Africnn National Concrjoss ic's form9d Ver the lendership of James Robert Dambaza Chikere:ama George Nyandoro, Francis Nehwati, and many others some of whom have Vanished into thepolitical wilderness. The loaderphip then fell on Joshua likomo, who, since then, has proved to be a great leader, mofe dynamio and determined. The African National Congress was banned in 1959 by Edgar Whitehead's regime and Comrades James Chikgremn and Geogv .Bodzo Nyandoro and many others were taken to the Khami Prison, in Bulawayo, then spine were removed from Khami to Selukwe and others to Marandeolas. Finally, the most feared ones were taken to Gal=io Restriction area. Comrades James Chikeromt and Georgo Hyandoro were taken to Gokwe n unhealthy area f or five y'ears. It vams in the Gokvo Restriction camp that plans for tie fo~mution of tioc National Denocratio Party were worked out. IT.D.P. The Nationa). Democratic Party ,as formed in 1960 under the temporary leadership of Michael Mawoixi now the vacillatinC 0rganising Secretary of ZANU. Comrade Joshu.- Nkomo, the People's President -as in exile operating from London. His work during this period helped in informing the outs.de world about the *-nhuman brutalities of the settler regime and the plight of the Zimbabve eoplo. Llvraw due to his inborn opportunistic tendencies, resigned from the Party's Leadership, then later formed ZNP which never managed to rise from the ground. The interim leadership of the TIDP fell on Taknwira who is now the supposed Deputy 0 President of ZANU. r At the first Concreas, Joshua Nkomo was unanimously elected as the Party's President. Comrade Joshua 11kom6 was informed about the decision1 of the Peop_ j Congress and immediately he nade all the arrangements to fly. ti to Salisbury. Ukomo was net at Salisbury Airport by a crowd of more than 100,000 sinGing and nnw1z.g supporters. This is the largest crowd ever to be Me recorded at Salisbury Airp6t Jol The N.!.P. spread like a veld fire -nd itblin a short space of tine it to had reached every corner of the country. The revolutuionary fires in Zimbabwe were spreading; like an epidemic. t, The N.D.P. wac banned the same year 1960 in Docember but the workers inc and peasants of Zimbabwe had already been organised into a revolutionary force that could not be destroyed. con Z.A.P.U. The Zimbabwe African Peoples' Union was formed a few days after thw, the ban on the 1.D.P. The day was the lst of January, 1961. Cont .... 5 LC1G LIVE HTR AGAINST IMPULTALISA AND OMMQIALM I I *. - Uo "

(5) Z.A.P.U. quickly assumed the responsibilities left by the N.D.P. under the leadership of Joshua Nkomo. Everybody, young and old, found salvation in Z.A.P.U. Our membership was swelling tremendously and the settler regime felt the strength of the People's movement. This resulted in a series of arrests. Many leaders were piled up with charges arising from their political activities. Comrade Joshua Nkomo had several charges laid against him and day in day out he appeared in the settlers' courts. The settler regime immediately started working townrds banning the People's Movement. We immediately started a campaign aimed it assessing the reaction of the people to the proposed b.n rind it is during this time that the then Deputy President of the People's Movement, the Late Doctor Tichafn Parirenyatwa wis mercilessly assassinnted by tgns on his way to Bulawayo on this mission. The people cime all out with n decision not to form any other Party in the event of the settler regime banning Z.A.P.U. This w-s agreed upon by everybody in the ranks and file of Z.A.P.U. including the divisionist Sithole and his group. Z.A.P.U. was banned in August, 1962 nd many leaders and leadinG members of the People's Movement were rounded up and sent to Restriction nrens for n period of three months. The People's President, Joshua Nkomo, joined the others n few weeks later because he hnd been out of the country on Party Mission. P.C.C. The People's Caretnker Council .oame into being on 10th AuGust , 1963 -t n Conference attended by thousands o delegates from all over the country. P.C.C. was not formed ns party since the People of Zimbabwe had refused to recognise the ban imposed on Z.A.P.U. P.C.C. ,, formed for the sole purpose of oarrying out the political organisation inside the country. This was necessary it that time for purposes of injecting the revolutionary fires into the people. P.C.C. was bnnned by the settler regime like all other previous movements but the ball hid started rolling. The ban on I.C.C. was ridiculous since P.C.C. was not a party. according to % the defination of the word. It was after the ban of the P.C.C. that soveral leaders and ordiniry members were arrested - Restrictions follved. The People's President, Joshun Nkomo, wis taken to Gonrlkudzing!a. The other people were taken t o Wha Wha. Now the total number of the people restricted or detained is more than 12,000. Several camps have been set up to aocomodate the everincreasing numbers of freedom fighters. The banning of politioal parties gVve the settler regime o chance of confiscating party property. Thousands of sterling pounds were lost through these bannings. The money was taken by the settler regime to be used Cont.. .6 LONG LIVE HATRED AGAINST I11PRIALISK AND 9OLONIALISM I £ J The -A W. j...UU. I po.i t.4o'pt eg The banning of political pnrties glve the settler regime a chane of i? C 0 q0 -Is:- 'scw aaq a -x rieninst oW i6y& p CA J, 'A - Ocf"Yjfj I -J"% Of"S 'woil PrIbibat Y weia, Sol bb%'eto *y fhb's-me regime rj t2f6r"'t -M rwrlvi i'o i6irfflokbo Vib-'s r-iorceb. I r-0 Now WO h"IV6 6ntlbr6 -" ph.-Ino ilhiba -Hir-1400 t o comploto Over Jirou, Of the 0 CA , *I,- - ". !o rue pe y i - ,- O 9TSW ;35111f0-1 yzft-L-4-v bean ad' cd i9Dte'a 0 ;j- .,j " r xjrqf.: OAT Irvnl * ifirl" ff f u tflo MaIw IfOL100 Tia vdala'IM TO aV vc r, im anc.),1000'r I tcf lot t fj 'to b, :3, . J p Je 1 f: ut Ic ;fdmq: . CI 1, t: b i .'L: 10 f.jw 1,4 dT J, 1 T: r v vi .:IT + v: ZF +

THE ZIMBABWE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S UNION (S0UTHERI RHDEDAR PRESS RELEASE DAR ES SAL.. l0th Jarch, 1965. RE-BOTTOMY'S TATEBIVT The confession by the Commonwealth Secretary, Mr.- Bottomley that the British Government vill neither impose majority rule nor convene a Constitutional Conference over the problem of Rhodesia makes his expressed hope for a solution a naked piece of deception. The truth of the matter is that the British Government has surrendered the initiative to the settler dictatorship of Smith and has been gi. -ed to the policy of losing the grip of the - under the camouflage of empty protests on majority rule. Africans have never as yet exercised any more violence than is retaliatory and unavoidable to eliminate the aggressive presence of the settler dictatorship. The submission of the British Government to Ian Smith's refusal of a Constitutional Conference is a direct rejection Of constitutional means of solving the problem of Rhodesia and this ~ a signal to the Africans to use other means than constitutional. SIGNED I ... /0. TaG. SIIAM3IKA SEORMAH FOR PUBLICITI AND INMFOMATION . I: 'A, I el