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Nuzn 1 9 9 5 babwe ws babwe ws Official Organ Department of Information and Publicity, 14Austin Road, Workington, Harare Volume 26, No. 6 1995, Registered at the GPO as a Newspaper of ZANU PF --T7 $11.0(incl. sales tax) Thei Ndajjr HE PAR I~iiiEXC killing a crime? twist to assassination WEST USING IMF TO DE-INDUSTRIALISE AFRICA Zimbabwe News Official Organ of ZANU PF Contents' E ditorial: .................................................................................................................................... ........ 2 L etters: .................................................................................................................................... ......L 3 National News; ZANU PF urged to draw up election guidelines ..............................4 Day of Unity proposed ............... ................................. 6 Party leaders causing internal conflicts ........................................................................... 8 The incorrigible Ndabaningi Sithole ................................................................................ 10 Wildlife conservation boosts communities ...................................................................... 12 Zimbabwean women on the march - after Beijing .............................................................. 13 Community manages fishing resources ........................................................................ 14 Marriage laws may bring constitutional changes ................................................... 15 Fighting drought and feeding millions ................................................................... 16 M utoko vendors appeal to council ................................................................................. 17 Cover Story: Ushe - hero par excellence ................................................................................... 18 Regional News: African integration as a solution to African economic crisis ............................................... 22 SADC: building the community *hrough music ................... t ........................................ 23 Struggling for women's political participation ............................................................... 26 Feature: The IMF blackmails Zimbabwe ........................... ..........28 International News: New twist to Gandhi assassination ....................................... 31 New Brifish vaccine: an answer to AIDS ................................... 33 Women and children: key to disaster prevention ......................................................... 35 Issue of resources dominates Beijing Conference ........................................................... 35 Talking Point: Is judicial killing a crime? ............................................ 37 The UN: Lessons of 50 years ............................................................................................. 38 Colonial legacy triggering chaos in Nigeria ............ ........................................................... 42 Sport: New vision for South African sports ...................................................................... ; ....... 43 Regional chiefs endorse UEFA vision .................................. i ............................................. 44 IOC to establish environmental policy ..................................... 45 SADC wants games facilities utilised by members ............................. _ 46 Andy Cole - lethal goal-scoring talent .'................ 46 Obituary: Stanford Mharadzi passes away .................................................................................... 48 C ZIMBABWE NEWS VOL. 26 NO. 6 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 Iand Publicity, Jongwe Printing and Publishing Co., No. 14Austin Road, Workington, Harare. World Copyright, Central Committee (ZANU PF) Editorial Council: Cde. N.M. Shamuyarira, Cde. C.C. Chimutengwende, Cde. C. Ndhlovu, Cde. S. Kachingwe, Cde.A. Sikhosana, de. M. MunyatL / / )AMR Em .,.. EDITORIAL Democracy at work THE strength of any political party is in constant and regular consultation with the people. ZANU-PF has been doing precisely that this month (December). On the 13th of December we had the fourth regular session of the Central Committee. But, on the 15th and 16th December, the Party organised a mini-Congress to consult all districts and provinces on the current Party programme. A wide range of issues was discussed, and common positions estabished. Before the general elections of last April, and the municipal elections of last October, the Party again consulted widely in the selection of candidates. Primary elections were held to determine and ensure that the candidates had grass-roots support. That was as it should be. No candidate(s) should be imposed on any constituency by anybody. But, that process has raised many problems. It has allowed persons with money to buy their way into certain offfices, without a commitment to principles and policies of the Party. it is necessary to review the current practices on elections with a view to maintaining the unity of the Party, and strengthening real democracy and free choice. One of the requirements in making democracy work is a responsible press that reports statements and issues correctly and objectively. A section of the Zimbabwe press is yellow and malicious in its reporting on the Government and the ruling Party. It readily prints lies and views of any opposition candidates, and distorts whatever comes from ZANU-PF. No effort is ever made to hear or print our views. Some of the editors, reporters, and columnists, were sworn enemies of ZANU-PF during the liberation struggle. It is the same people still fighting against us and the people. It is difficult to build a democratic society with such specialist liars pursuing their hidden agenda in the name of a free press. IMF impoverishing Third World countries IN this issue we carry a number of articles commenting on how the implementation of IMF prescriptions is causing unforeseen economic hardships in the affected countries. The spread of IMF influence in the management of national economies is directly connected with post-Cold War developments in the international economic order. The collapse of central economic management in Eastern Europe ensured the unchecked spread of capitalist influence in every part of the globe, especially in Third World' countries. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank became the mediums through which the capitalist West began to propagate the ideology of "reforms" for the strengthening of capitalist ways of economic management in Eastern Europe and the Third World. Beginning from around 1985, Eastern Europe and Third World countries were, stage by stage, forced to abandon central planning, privatise nationalised industries, cut down on government departments, remove subsidies on commodities constituting staple necessities for the general population, lower tariffs to permit the entry of foreign manufactured goods into the local market and generally become subservient to the economic and political dictatorship of the IMF and*World Bank. Both the IMF and World Bank are controlled, directed and ordered by industrially advanced capitalist countries. It is therefore in the direct interests of these industrialised countries to dictate an international economic order which stifles the economic advancement of less industrialised countries. This is a new form of colonialism called neo-colonialism. The neo-colonialism of the Third World is de facto from the reality that the former colonisers took careful measures to prevent the industrialisation of their former colonies from the first day of attaining political independence. Nationals of a newly independent country did not, obviously, have the money needed for building their own industries. Former colonisers knew of this reality and were quick to take advantage of it. Investors from former colonial powers demanded high interest rates for tHeir loans. The debts of former colonies spiralled so high that payments on interest alone surpassed the amount of originally borrowed principal capital. This paralysing indebtedness called for the search for more loans from the.same leaders. This process is continuing with no solution in sight. The pervasive indebtedness of Third World countries led to wide-spread payment defaults. The lenders then resorted to collective debt recovery claims through the auspices of the IMF/World Bank over which they had total control. This is bow the IMF came to be the instrument and medium for the imposition of economic hardships on Third World countries. The matter should be taken up at OAU meetings. Lobbying of other countries and organisations in this direction should be an aspect of our foreign policy in the immediate future until a full-scale debate at the United Nations on this subject is held. There is great chance that Zimbabwe will be suppofted by the majority pf UN members.Q I , i ZIMBABWE NEWS VOL. 26 NO. 6 Dear Editor Allow me to congratulate Dr. Rwambiwa's letter, "President urges the Teaching of National languages", (Zimbabwe News Vol. 26 No. 5) in which he excellently responded to Mabharani's selfdestructiVe and unpatriotic letter against African languages. What impressed me most was President Mugabe's question quoted by Dr. Rwambiwa: "What evil is there in teaching these languages?", meaning African languages. I think this is the most
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