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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 Review, Vol. 25, No. 6 Alternative title Zimbabwe ReviewZimbabwe Review: official organ of the Zimbabwe African Peoples' Union (ZAPU) Author/Creator Publicity and Information Bureau of the Zimbabwe African People's Union Publisher Publicity and Information Bureau of the Zimbabwe African People's Union Date 1994-11-00 Resource type Magazines (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Zimbabwe, Southern Africa (region) Coverage (temporal) 1994 Rights By kind permission of ZANU, the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front. Description EDITORIAL. LETTERS: Need for leadership education. Clinic lacks resources. The wrangle over cotton prices. NATIONAL NEWS: President's progress report to Congress. New executive for the Women's League. The ZANU PF Central Committee and Politburo. EU/SADC ministers hold conference. Poverty reduction in Matabeleland North. Exposing pupils to the world of work. Occupational injuries on the increase. National cleaner production centre for Zimbabwe. Still waters run deep. INTERNATIONAL: Russia wants Iraqi embargo lifted. Fast growing grasses as fuel. Drug patches help prevent premature births. Money mandarins lay siege to Africa's bank. New Rwanda government. The battle against drug running. Taiwan has no right to join UN. BBC declares war on CNN. Home most threatening place for women. British police seek better protection. US bans airlines from nine countries. Cuba protests use of its bay. Renamo gangs reported in Sofala. Government spurns Renamo demand to disarm riot police. FEATURES: Lack of dialogue causing strikes. Advantages of inward investment. TALKING POINT: http://www.aluka.org Identity as a sight of struggle. POETRY: The unknown fallen heroes. Format extent 48 page(s) (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.nuzr19942506 http://www.aluka.org 0ealm nononUonPF I4' i 0ealm nononUonPF I4' i -Zimbabwe Nqewsv 011ial Organ of ZANU PF DprmnofItmnadPulcty,1 Austin Road $ 1 . 0 ( c.slstx ,,,, P ......nd Develop-..,_, Volume 25. No. 6. 1994, Registered at the G.P.0 as a Newspaper $ (inc. sales tax) ongress n.ia.an University FEB 0 9 1995 :....Library JIROa*. 00o*° : ,; g*~~ : a- V gm Z -F".PO!6Wur r"I'-Y. OF LSJ C-, e 4./ 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 Ifni 1T1 I The Zimbabwe Bird Watermark. 2 Two see-through rhinoceroses on either side which are in perfect register. 3 The security thread with RBZ50 printed on it. 4 Raised print which can easily be felt by running I your nail along it. 5 Extra small print which reads 50, 50, 50 ... situated to the left of the balancing rocks. FRONT i EKVE BLANK OF ZIMBABWE .:A,0000000:A ;~ooooi ,0 - 4 3 3 BACK The New $50 Note... the convenience of handling money is now here. Pub..h.d xy R 8 Z z7h M.rh 1994 Zimbabwe News Official Organ of ZANU PF 1. Editorial 2. Letters 3. National News: 4. International 5. Features: 6. Talking Point: 7. Poetry: Contents o.............. o .. ... ............... ... .... .. 2 Need for leadership education .............................................. 3 C linic lacks resources .................................................... 3 The wrangle over cotton prices ..................................... .3 President's progress report to Congress ............................... 4 New executive for the Women's League ............................. 9 The ZANU PF Central Committee and Politburo ................... 10 EU/SADC ministers hold conference ................................. 12 Poverty reduction in Matabeleland North ........................... 14 Exposing pupils to the world of work ................................ 14 Occupational injuries on the increase ................................. 17 National cleaner production centre for Zimbabwe .................. 17 Still w aters run deep .................................................... 18 Russia wants Iraqi embargo lifted ................... 19 Fast growing grasses as fuel ........................................... 19 Drug patches help prevent premature births ......................... 19 Money mandarins lay siege to Africa's bank ........................ 20 New Rwanda government ............................................... 20 The battle against drug running ........................................ 21 Taiwan has no right to join UN ...................................... 23 BBC declares war on CNN ............................................. 24 Home most threatening place for women ........................... 24 British police seek better protection ..................................... 25 US bans airlines from nine countries ................................ 25 Cuba protests use of its bay ........................................... 26 Renamo gangs reported in Sofala ...................................... 27 Government spurns Renamo demand to disarm riot police ......... 27 Lack of dialogue causing strikes ...................................... 29 Advantages of inward investment ...................................... 30 Identity as a sight of struggle .. 32 The unknown fallen heroes ............................................. 39 Zimbabwe News is the official Organ of the Zimbabwe African National Union tZANU PFI and is produced on the authority of the Central Conmittee by the Department of Information and Publicity, Jongwe Printing and Publishing Co., No. 14 Austin Road, Workington, Harare. World Copyright, Central Committee !ZANU PF1. Editorial Council: Cde N M Shamuyarira Cde. C.C. Chimutengwende Cde. C. Ndhlovu Cde S. Kachingwe Cde A. Sikhosana Cde. M. Munyati. Qm-lm ZIMBABWE NEWS VOL. 25 NO. 6, 1994 ZANU PF's democratic traditions disarm enemies THE world is today being told by the West to take up the word "democracy" as a watchword. Democracy is the natural method of managing public affairs. If there are culprits who have abused this word, they are the imperialists who, as colonialists, restricted its application to exclude the colonised and are now telling the formerly colonised people to practise it while at the same time, the same imperialists do not practise. The word "democracy" was applied by the ancient Greek city states is a compound of two Greek words: demos (people) and craetus (rule). Thus, origianlly democracy meant "the rule or the government of the people by the people themselves". In the 19th century, the American statesman, Abraham Lincoln, defined democracy as a "government of the people, by the people and for the people". One would think that Lincoln was a democrat who fully understood the meaning of democracy but John Wilkes Booth who assassinated him on April 14, 1865, shouted over Lincoln's copse: "sic semper tyrannis" (thus always to tyrants). It is obvious that Booth's idea of democracy was violently the opposite of what Abraham Lincoln stood for. Differences in the interpretation of democracy have existed since the invention of this word. The ancient Greeks, who invented the word, owned slaves whom they did not consider "people". So, all Greeks were "people" with the right to vote but their slaves had no vote. The rich apply democracy among themselves and exclude the poor. On the other hand, the poor include the rich in their application of democratic principles. We in ZANU PF apply the principles of democracy to cover all Zimbabweans regardless of class, race, sex or religion. However, ZANU PF applies democracy in favour of the majority who are the poor in our society. ZANU PF demonstrated its commitment to the application of democracy in favour of the poor majority when it held its Second People's Congress on September 22-26 this year. The Congress was atttended by delegates representing al social strata of the population but with an overwhelming presence of representatives of the poor majority. The 8 000 delegates were representing the workers, the peasants, the intelligensia, the women and the youth. There is no other political party in Zimbabwe that can match ZANU PF's cross-section representation of the entire population. Parties like Ian Smith's Conservative Alliance represents white racism and nothing else; Dumbutshena's Forum Party represents multi-racial elitism in the service of foreign interests and nothing