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Clare Short One Bad Letter with Long-Lasting Consequences ZIMBABWESponsored supplement designed to eliminate poverty. We would be Clare Short prepared to support a programme of land reform that was part of a poverty eradica- One bad letter with tion strategy but not on any other basis. I am told Britain provided a package of assistance for resettlement in the period long-lasting consequences immediately following independence. This was, I gather, carefully planned and On 5 November 1997, Britain’s then secretary of state for implemented, and met most of its targets. international development, Clare Short, wrote what has Again, I am told there were discussions in 1989 and 1996 to explore the possibility become one of the most defining landmarks in Zimbabwe’s of further assistance. However, that is all recent history – her letter to Zimbabwe’s then minister of in the past. agriculture and land, Kumbirai Kanga, repudiating Britain’s If we look to the present, a number of colonial responsibility for land reform in Zimbabwe. specific issues are unresolved, including the way in which land would be acquired and Below is Clare Short’s letter in full. compensation paid. Clearly it would not help the poor of Zimbabwe if it was done in a way which undermined investor confidence. Other questions that would need to be settled would be to ensure that the pro- We will set out our agenda for interna- cess was completely open and transparent, Zimbabwe tional development in a White Paper to be including the establishment of a proper land Bombing statistics published this week. The central thrust of register. Individual schemes would have to this will be the development of partnerships be economically justified to ensure that the 16 february Police caravan attacked in First Street, Harare. Windows of vehicle smashed with developing countries which are com- process helped the poor and for me the most 18 february Zupco public transport bus set on fire by alleged MDC activists. mitted to eradicate poverty, and have their important issue is that any programme must Fortunately the fire was extinguished own proposals for achieving that, which we be planned as part of a programme to con- 20 february Car belonging to an innocent driver set ablaze in Glen View by alleged MDC activists and other donors can support. tribute to the goal of eliminating poverty. I 12 March Unit N police camp in Chitungwiza petrol-bombed I very much hope that we will be able to would need to consider detailed proposals on 12 March Cross-border minibus set ablaze after traders’ goods looted at Kuwadzana develop such a relationship with Zimbabwe. these issues before confirming further British I understand that you aim shortly to publish support for resettlement. 13 March House belonging to Zanu-PF councillor for Ward I8 Seke petrol-bombed your own policies on economic management I am sure that a carefully worked out 13 March Nehanda police station in Gweru petrol-bombed and poverty reduction. I hope that we can programme of land reform that was part of 13 March Zupco public bus attacked and set on fire along Simoin Mazoredze Road. Another Zupco ear Minister, George Foulkes has discuss them with you and identify areas a programme of poverty eradication which bus stoned in Glen View reported to me on the meeting where we are best able to help. I mentioned we could support would also bring in other 14 March Marimba Police Camp petro-bombed which you and Hon John Nkomo this in my letter of 31 August to Hon Her- donors whose support would help ensure that had with Tony Lloyd and him[self] bert Murarwa. I should make it clear that a substantial land resettlement programme 18 March Nelson Chamisa, MDC member of parliament for Kuwadzana was attacked at the Harare airport while en route to South Africa. Police say he was attacked from behind by D during your recent visit. I know that Presi- we do not accept that Britain has a special such as you clearly desire could be under- unknown black male who snatched his portfolio containing dent Mugabe also discussed the land issue responsibility to meet the costs of land taken successfully. If is [sic] to do so, they too personal documents, but MDC claims the state was involved. Chamisa with the prime minister briefly during their purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new gov- will need to be involved from the start. was hospitalised meeting. It may be helpful if I record where ernment from diverse backgrounds with- It follows from this that a programme 23 March Sakubva police station petrol-bombed matters now rest on the issue. At the Com- out links to former colonial interests. My of rapid land acquisition as you now seem 24 March Machada supermarket and Pfukwa night club petrol-bombed monwealth Heads of Government meet- own origins are Irish, and as you know, we to envisage would be impossible for us to 24 March A Bulawayo-bound passenger train carrying over 750 passengers petrol-bombed ing [in Edinburgh], Tony Blair said that he were colonised, not colonisers. support. I know that many of Zimbabwe’s looked forward to developing a new basis We do, however, recognise the very real friends share our concern about the damage 27 March Zanu-PF district office in Mbare petrol-bombed for relations with Commonwealth countries issues you face over land reform. We believe which this might do to Zimbabwe’s agricul- 31 March Gumbas Wholesalers in downtown Harare, belonging to a former Zanu-PF MP, Christopher founded upon our new government’s poli- that land reform could be an important tural output and its prospects of attracting Chigumba, petrol-bombed cies, not on the past. component of a Zimbabwean programme investment. g NA May 2007 New African n 69 Zimbabwe The police speak ZIMBABWESponsored supplement Zimbabwe’s deputy commissioner of police (operations), Godwin T. Matanga, explains to Baffour Ankomah why his officers beat up Morgan Tsvangirai and other opposition leaders on 11 March. “It was in self-defence, because Tsvangirai and his group were trying to overrun the Machipisa police station by force,” says the deputy commissioner. Baffour: So far we have heard only one had been banned by the police. We then Constable Pretty Rushwaya, one of the two policewomen whose house was petrol-bombed side of the story about the beating up of deployed our officers to make sure that peace by suspected MDC activists, receives attention Morgan Tsvangiria and the other MDC and tranquillity prevailed, and that people at the Parirenyatwa Hospital leaders. What really happened on the day, were not going to be disturbed by anyone. and why did your officers beat up the It was in the Highfield area of the capi- opposition leaders? tal, Harare. To be more specific, it was at the Deputy Commissioner Matanga: First, I Michipisa police station where the officer would want to welcome you to police head- in charge was patrolling and carrying on quarters, and thank you for coming to listen his responsibilities in the area with eight to our side of the story. I would like to believe other officers in a pick-up truck, when they that the Ministry of Information has given encountered a group of about 200 people. you a broader picture of what is going on Unfortunately, there were five-year-old chil- right now in the country, so I will confine dren in front of this big group and the police myself to the specific issue you have raised. found it difficult to encounter this group There are quite a number of activities because of the presence of these young chil- or events which occurred before and since dren. 11 March. For example, in January and As a result of the MDC officials incit- February this year, MDC activists had pet- ing people to attend a banned rally at Zim- rol-bombed cars, mini-vans, public buses, babwe Grounds in Highfields, this group and had attacked police stations and officers of 200 people became very rowdy against come, Arthur was going to take the glory and and injured some of them. These are acts the police. They attacked our officers and world attention from him. of terrorism which the police were trying severely injured two of them. So Mr Tsvangirai, not wanting to lose the to deal with before the events of 11 March Thereafter, in reaction to this encoun- limelight to Mutambara, then drove straight occurred. ter, the leader of the MDC “pro-Senate” fac- to the Machipisa police station. When he But of particular interest to you, from tion, Prof Arthur Mutambara, was arrested got to the main gate, he encountered the your question, is the day when the leader along with some of his members and they police officers manning the gate. There was of the MDC “anti-Senate” faction, Morgan were detained at the Michipisa police station. a group of ordinary people and MDC sup- Tsvangirai, was arrested. [Tsvangirai’s fac- Because Mutambara did not resist arrest and porters standing outside the gate when Mr tion was against entering candidates for last was not violent towards the police, he was Tsvangirai arrived and demanded the release year’s Senate election, which led to a split of not assaulted, nobody touched him. of Mutambara and others. the MDC into two, one faction – the “pro- From the intelligence we got that morn- The police openly told him not to get Senate election” – is now headed by Prof Arthur ing, Mr Tsvangirai was then phoned by one inside the station as the people outside were Mutambara]. of his own members telling him that he was trying to overrun the station.
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