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Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News LET \JS FIGHT AND Official Organ of ZANU(PF) Department of Information and Publicity, 14 Austin Road, Workington, Harare REBUILD ZIMBABWE Volume 21 No, ,1, J 989,,Reaistf red.at ttie G,P,0. asa N.e.^spafj^r... , , . "7QC (incl. sales tax) DAM CONSTRUCTION -r THE ONLY SOLUTION TO DROUGHT THE HISTORIC CONGRESS r Suppliers of Comet Trucks, Parts and Serv^ice Leyland (Zimbabwe) Limited Watts Road Phone: 67861 Soutlierton Telex: 26387 ZW •1th Tlje«aa»i)#tii» NBtioB is Sound and Itam tORstmction in Chivi - The Song-qonteit i Only Soiution to End Drou^t . Zimbabwe' has won the Common• In HIS Second State of the Mation ad• The drought and powwty stricken Ch^ wealth song contest against 55 other dress last December President Mugabe vl District in Masvingo may soon be entries. The young Zimbabwean mu• said the political and economic rescued fromthi s situation fcdlowmg sical group. Christians Against Racial atmosphere the construction of dams which would DisCnmination,(C/«lD), won the Com- of the nation is very soundy and supply water to this arid land which mwiwealth song competition with healthy and said Zimbabwe goe^ into falls under natural farming region tfjeir number, 'Our Rainbow' 1990 with hope and confidencei four page 40 ^-pagelS -page 31 CONTENTS ,|pN thre«t«a«d «s clampdown on Khool's costs bcf^s Editorial ... 2 ' Letter to the Editor . 3 • fMe general woAers at St Peters Editor's Message . ' XtAatana, aeKondary School are ^ * i^ir^i pay rise, the school's- Unity Accord ends Division .. ... 5 !Qf ttustees is waiting for an ap- President Afmoupces Presidium of National Congress _ . 6 Itiom the Ministry of l,abour, ' . wer Ptannmg and Social Wei; Kmneth Kftuiwia, Bub Poet Extraoidjnainr'..,! .„ 7-. fatt to retrench twenty and.... Congress Showerpd wfeh Messa^ l.,x..sJt^.:!:4.^.~-^ ^ 8 27 " " • P9ge Central Committee and Politburo of 2ANU PF Announced . , . - 9 Party, iSovernment Work Together ... j .. ., . 10 Resolutions of the ZANU PF National People's Congress .. 12' Unity Must Forcefully Permeate the Entirety of Zimbabwe 18. The State of the Nation ".. 19 / ^pdtd Committee and PoUtburo of Hie President's National Tree Planting Day Massage 2%' • ;ZAKU. Announced ZANU PF Members of the Politburo . ... y 22 Social Welfare Problems Still Biting •> 241 "rtie national fseople's congress has ; ^ms up vyith 160 members of the Pasipamire on War Veterans Association. - . 25" •' 'new 2ANU PF Centra! Committee and Ac«piBr« Skills to fight InjusticjB ... J.. ...i, + .1, 26 inembers of the Politburo, Jobs Threatened as Clampdown ori School's Cost Begins 27 1 page 9 Shandlsai Pfungwa Co-operative Moves Into Cookings Oil. Production 28 Co-operative Needs Help ^.^ .. • ^ -iii; 30 Dam Construction in Chi»i — The Only Solution to end liroi^ht 31. American Aggression Against Panama , . 32 Pressure Groups Launched to Educate Rural Consumers OH Rights 33 lAiib^ Most Fm-twiiiliy Permeate the . EDtirety of Zimbabwe, Says Perestroika — Way of Restructuring the Economy .'. , ,. 34 Pnraiitsiift Zimbabwe Needs a Polrce Force of High Calibre , 36 Peace, Stability Entitlement for tkath and Squth., 37 file National People's Congress held South Aiiica Adopts Extra-Ugai Violence to Contain Actjvtsts „ 39 from December 18-22, 1989 came ' after intensive pr^^jatuftis which in- Zimbabwe Wins Commonwealth Song Co/ti^^ 40 ' dudfldamorgjothra-things joint Cen iBt^naUonaj Concert Pianist"Waf^ i 41 ttsi Cwimittee meetings trf tl&e old S«inyika Speaks on th« «(jK}4^^p|n^|pier^.^,^^„^. 42 ZANU »PS( and PF-ZAKJ I9a9, Vear of Blues for HUgidandtes. ''^ ^^"^ 43 page 20 The, Poet Says 44 lisd Zimbabwe News is the official Organ of the Zimbabwe African National Union [ZANU PF 1 and is produced on the authority of the Central Committee by the Department of Inforrnation and Publicity, Jongwe Printing and Publishing Co., No. 14 Austin JONGWE Road, Workington, Harare. World Copyright, Central Committee [ZANU PF ]. Editorial Council: Cde. N.M. Shamuyarira; Cde. C. Chumitengwende; Cde. C. Ndhlovu; Cde. S. Kachingwe; Cde. A. SII<hosana; Cde. M. Munyati. Pictures by: The Zimbabwe News, Ministry of Information and Zimpapers ZIMBABWE NEWS JANUARY. 1990 1 EDITORIAL National Unity and National Elections The achievement of national unity at the first congress The internal democracy of the party must be strength of the united ZANU PF party in Harare last month was ened by ensuring that those who are elected to hold a m^or victory for our people, our party, and our lead• high offices in the provinces truly enjoy the support ers. We congratulated them on this victory then, and of all the people. The wish and the will of the people we repeat those words again this month. The task must be respected, and be seen to be effected. ahead of us now is to cement and consolidate that unity in our daily lives. We should work together as General Elections one people, and one nation, in the villages, the mines, The fifth and final session of the second Parliament the farms, the factories, the offices, the cities, and in• of Zimbabwe is now meeting in Harare. General deed everywhere, in a supreme effort to make unity parliamentary elections will be held in the next few a reality. The organs of the party — cells, branches, months. The provincial councils should begin the districts, and provinces — should reach out for the process of identifying possible candidates for selec• membership and participation of every Zimbabwean tion. Unfettered internal democracy must be exercised and bring them into the party in a meaningful way. < in all provinces, and at all levels, again to ensure that There is room for all our people to contribute ideas the will and wi^h of the people is fully and freely ex• to the policies of the party, and the programmes of pressed. No candidate should be imposed on any the government. province, or constituency, by either the national or provincial leaderships. No one Should put any politi• Disunity and social conflict would have played cal brakes in order to stop the advancement of a popu• straight into the hands of the enemies of Zimbabwe. lar candidate who has grassroots support. In short, The eu-ch-enemy on our southern border, the Repub• the selection of parliamentary candidates must be lic of South Africa, has seized every conceivable op• open and fair, as we did in the previous two general portunity to divide our young nation on racial, tribal elections. or ethnic grounds, in its continuing effort to distabi- lise our nation. They have failed to achieve their ob• Those who have the onerous responsibilit/ of select• jective. Their local agent, the so-called ZUM, has con• ing parliamentary candidates must also ensure that tinued in its futile efforts to divide the people, and they select men and women with a good record of to sow seeds of dissension and disalfection among loyalty and service to the party. At election time, we the people. The so-called ZUM is led by disgruntled, should not be deceived by persons who come to our reckless, and incompetent men who want to shed the offices to sing praises of tJie party just because they blood of innocent people in Zimbabwe for no appar• want positions in Parliament or in the provincial coun• ent reason. Their only objective is to get money for cils at this time. The candidates must be judged and themselves from the enemies of Zimbabwe. The real assessed purely on their record of actions in the past, unity of the people achieved at the Congress is a se• not on the fine words of today. More importantly, the vere blow to ^eternal enemies of Zimbabwe, and their candidates must also be men and women with suffi• local agents. Not many people will be wanting to join cient knowledge of Zimbabwean affairs to be able to Edgar Tekere in his political graveyard of ZUM in the contribute constructively to the debates in Parliarnent forthcoming general elections. After all. Parliament is the top decision-making body in the land. We would be defeating our own purposes, Bye-Elections Soon if we put in there men and women who cannot make Next month there will be bye-elections to fill the vacan• a contribution to that legislative body. We should also cies in the provincial councils that have been creat• select men and women who are capable of being ap• ed by the election of some of ttieir members to the pointed as Ministers and Deputy Ministers by the Central Committee and the Politburo. In circumstances President and First Secretary. In keeping with our poli• where the vacancies are as many as one-third of the cy and practice of criticism and self-criticism, the time total seats, the entire provincial council will have to of selecting candidates provides an opportunity for be dissolved and new elections conducted by the Na• candid debate on the merits and demerits of each and tional Commissariat. But, in circumstances where the every candidate. Seating Members of Parliament vacancies are not many, they can be filled either by should also be scrutinised. Open and candid criticism co-option or bye-elections. The district council of each other will bring forward the cream, the best delegates who will be taking part in the provincial political cadres in our party, while at the same time bye-elections, must ensure that all major areas of the exposing the opportunists who use money and beer province are represented in the provincial council. to bribe their way into positions and offices. Candid They should also make sure that the bye-elections are debate should remain the hall-mark of our internal conducted in a manner that is democratic and fair.
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