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(■ b Volume 23 No 34 LONDON 21 JUNE 1976 7p Gabellah offers new rule for Rhodesia Twenty Countries at Salisbury conference FOR MORAL RE ARMAMEKI DR ELLIOTT GABELLAH, Vice Presi a hundred people of all races from dent of the African National Council, South Africa. believes that conflict in Rhodesia could Among the speakers from South be a starting point for world crisis but Africa was Judge C J Claassen. 'South also that resolution of conflict in Africa has great wealth,' he said. 'If the Rhodesia could be 'a pointer' to a new states and nations could co-operate on a peaceful basis, we could create a society The Rhodesian African leader said this which could supply the rest of Africa at an international Moral Re-Armament with food and industrial resources. But conference in Salisbury attended by personal and national pride, hate and representatives from twenty countries. feju: stand in the way. Change must start Opening the conference the Mayor of with me. I have had to apologise for Salisbury, Councillor Tony Tanser, said my attitude of racial superiority and I it was the most cosmopolitan assembly want to repeat it here. My attitudes were he had ever addressed. wrong. I am sorry. Please forgive me.' Dr Gabellah was introduced by Alec It was no good talking of Rhodesia Smith, son of the Rhodesian Prime as 'a last bastion of Christian civilisa Minister. Alec Smith described Gabellah tion', said the Anglican Bishop of as 'my friend and colleague, a man of Mashonaland, the Right Rev Paul principle and superb courage to stand Dr Elliott Gabellah addressee opening session Burrough. He told members of the up for what is right in our society'. audience that they had come to the con Gabellah told the 800 people present, members of the African National ference at their peril. They had to accept 'We politicians have tried and tried to Council and others prominent in the the terrifying logic of the love of God. find solutions but we find no answer. Our political and business life of Rhodesia 'You will be asked not by a bishop but problems are beyond the power of man were also present. by God to take your courage in your to solve. But there is a power and a Alec Smith said it was because he was hands and live it out,' he said. power house which has not been tapped. a Rhodesian and loved his country that During the meeting the hall resounded That power is God. Power from God he was seeking a solution to its prob to the music of a traditional African stgjts with you and me. You cannot rule lems. 'God has a plan to heal the xylophone band and to an African r '' country if you are crooked yourself.' divisions of our land', he said. 'If we chorus, and at the end the whole The Rhodesian problem could cause commit ourselves to this plan we can audience, black and white, stood for the bloodshed and even lead to a third world overcome the problem of race prejudice, singing of 'Nkosi Sikelele Africa', the war, he said. It could be solved by turn hate and injustice. But this will not hap African anthem. ing to God. Man must look critically at pen unless we all participate.' He wel On the eve of the conference Alec himself. The tendency was for black to comed especially a party of more than RHODESIA contmind on pago 2 blame white and vice versa. 'Let us adopt a rule - not who is right hut what is right. There cannot be two rights. What is right - that is the answer to our problems,' he said. Attending the opening session, which was chaired by Sir Cyril Hatty, a former Minister of Finance, were Senator J WrathaU, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, R Cronje, Minister of Labour and Health and E Sutton- Price, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department. Sir Humphrey Gibbs, former Governor General of Rhodesia, Pat Bashford, Leader of the Centre Party, as well as members of the family of Ian Smith and of Bishop Muzorewa and many Tha Marimba band from Mufakota, tha Sailabury townahi slon RHODESIA continued from page 1 opportunities for the black man and the moral and spiritual revolution which Smith and twelve respresentatives from investment opportunities for the black goes far enough to alter our life style ^ix countries, including four black and entrepreneur which will answer the and penetrate our political and in white South Africans, were interviewed degr^ation we feel? Before a God-led dustrial systems.' 'This is where the by Rhodesian TV in a 45 minute pro- unity every problem can be solved.' ordinary person comes in,' she con programme on 'The new society'. He was followed by Cyril Pearce, tinued. 'Each of us in our lives immediate past President of the CHIEF MINISTER SPEAKS experience the desire of the haves to Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce, hang on to what they have, of the have- The Rhodesian constitutional conference who emphasized that businessmen had nots to destroy those who have more would help everyone if it was held in to accept that their objectives were not than they do. When we work these a spirit of brotherhood and desire for just profits but the overcoming of social things out in our own lives we have a results, a South African Chief Minister problems. Business, he said, had to help part in creating the new philosophy and told the assembly. feed and house and open opportunities way of life that is essential if the world Chief Lucas M Mangope, Chief for the millions of have-nots. is to solve its environmental problems.' Minister of Bophuthatswana, who was speaking on 'The forgotten factor in ALTERING THE LIFE STYLE FEEDING AFRICA politics and international relations', said 'Our children are going to live in an 'Food or Famine' was the theme of a that Southern Africa was on the thres age when there is a lot less of every session addressed by farmers from hold of exciting but extremely challeng thing than there is now. Are we equip Rhodesia, South Africa, Britain, Kenya ing developments. The long over-due ping them to live in that age? We must and New Zealand. not confuse a high standard of living 'Rhodesia has a role to play in with a good quality of living.' The Southern Africa,' said Sir Cyril Hatty, speaker, Mrs Helen Duigan, a Johannes who chaired the session. 'We can do a burg housewife, gave practical examples lot to help Mozambique, and already we of housekeeping in the context of limited are helping Zambia. I believe in getting world resources to a seminar on 'Human together with the common objective of Nature and the Environment'. 'Imagina feeding a hungry world, over and abo^ tion is one of our most precious re political boundaries. Some settlemei..' ITi sources,' she said. must come in Africa, and when it comes Speaking as an ecologist Dr David we have an important part to play in Mitchell, Senior lecturer in the Division producing food for other countries.' of Biological Studies at the University Dr Ian Edwards, a senior research of Rhodesia, told the seminar that the officer in the Rhodesian department of situation demanded a change in the agriculture, gave the assembly a survey motivation of individuals and society, as of world conditions which have made well as in human relationships. 'Rhodesia famine 'a fact of life'. is a microcosm of the world,' he said. 'Agricultural research knows no 'We have our developed and under- political frontiers,' he concluded.'We co The Rt Rev Paul Burrough, Bishop of Mashonaland operate on a global scale.' With sound Rhodesian constitutional conference was agricultural policies and a maintained conceived, he said, through the vision standard of expertise, such co-operation of the South African Prime Minister, would ensure the food needed in John Vorster, and Presidents Kaunda of Southern Africa in the future. Zambia, Nyerere of Tanzania and "The margin between feast and famine Khama of Botswana. is a narrow one,' he said. 'Food dis Chief Mangope warned that black tribution is the crux. We confuse youths were impatient because they national disasters with man-made prob thought things were not changing fast lems.' Another need, he said, was to enough. South Africa would not remain close 'the communications gap between unaffected by changes taking place in the urban and farming communiti'^S Mozambique and Angola. If the Transkei 'We have sacrificed the farmer in the became independent, which it was pre interests of cheap food.' This, he said, paring for, and other homelands saw was a major contributing cause of the the advantages, they would also demand economic crisis in Britain, which now independence. Judge C J Ctaassen from South Africa produces only 50 per cent of her food As a black South African, he said he developed countries, our race problem, requirements. had suffered untold humiliations, our inequality of wealth. If we can solve Other speakers illustrated, from ex indignities and deprivations for a long our problems in this country we can perience on their farms, how to deal with time. 'If time and the intensity of sub show the rest of the world how to the human elements which block co jection to such treatment justified bitter answer them.' operation. ness, I would be very bitter.' Roland Kingwill, member of the Con 'I believe New Zealand is responsible He said he would not allow such servation Advisory Board of the Karoo, to see that the people of Asia are ade bitterness to enter his heart because South Africa, spoke of his experiment quately fed, and it may be the responsi Chief Mangope said although black in soil conservation twenty years ago, bility of Rhodesia to see that Africa is South Africans were discriminated reducing the number of stock he carried fed,' said Robin Prickett, a New Zealand against there was now a change at the risk of personal loss.

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