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Zimbabwe Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1964 Zimbabwe Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1964 http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.nuzr19640808 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. 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. 4, No. 1, 1964 Alternative title Zimbabwe ReviewZimbabwe Review: official organ of the Zimbabwe African Peoples' Union (ZAPU) Author/Creator Publicity and Information Bureau of the Zimbabwe African Peoples' Union (ZAPU) Publisher Publicity and Information Bureau of the Zimbabwe African Peoples' Union (ZAPU) Date 1964-08-08 Resource type Magazines (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Zimbabwe, United Kingdom, Malawi Coverage (temporal) 1964 Source Northwestern University Libraries, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies Rights By kind permission of ZANU, the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front. Description Editorial: Wither Zimbabwe- Now. Sir Roy Welensky and the R.N.P. The 50,000 Manned S. African Army to Defend S. Rhodesia. Commentary. Zimbabwe News in Brief. Heavy Sentences Passed at Mtoko and Salisbury. At Bulawayo. S. Rhodesia Parliament. Smith Visits Malawi. ZANU Resignations: The Implications. The Committee of Two. Late News: 400 Attend Msarurwa's Funeral. Supplement: "Your Defunct ZANU is Manned by Police Informers and Divisionists," Makombe Tells Zvobgo. Format extent 14 page(s) (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.nuzr19640808 http://www.aluka.org 0 0 *Vol. 4. 1. 8/8/64. H L. i ,CT117)1964 TEEN:270 0 i DAR ES SALAAM MARKET STREET 0 D WITHER ZIMBABWE NOW. Now that the dust has been allowed to settle down after the few hectic weeks that passed in which we saw the Commonwealth Prime Ministerst Conference and the subsequent historic O.A.U. Heads of States meeting in Cairo, speculations start to jab and filter into peoples' minds. Malaysia speculates about the decision reached at the Comonwe,Ith Conference in London, on its dispute with Indonesia. The British (.uiaa delegation and its people are thinking about their country's situation and we, the Zimbabweans (S. Rhodesians), are filled with thoughts about 'ur countrys future. So, every one is burdened with his own troubles in d ours are, to our knowledge, imposed on us by tho British Government ,d its policies of trying to salvage and console the wrongs its kith ar- kin are, day and night, doing to our mother-land , Zimbabwe. The peopli, of Zimbabwe (Africans especially) had placed their faith in the British Government, to solve the impasse prevailing in our country but it sc,;rr, to us that Britain, when it comes to the worst, can forsake us for the benefit of its kith In Zimbabwe. IBritain, that is if its gospel of trying to solve the tense situation in Zimbabwe to the benefit of the majority is sincere, must now call a constitutional conference than let the issue drift on while it is playing for time. In Zimbabwe, no half and half measures would satisfy lis. All we want is to rule our country just in the way the democratic dictate goes#, the Government by the people, of the people and for the people. Vre clamour for nothing new but what every democratic country knows is the right claizd* Before we got this recognition there will continue to be economic havoc and a continuous political struggle to regain our heritage by peaceful means or$ if there is no hope of a peaceful solution, by revolutionary tactics. Cont../ People may rpise their eye-brows when we say this because Smith has got the most efficient army in Central Africa but we will answer then in this humble way* "Might is not necessarily strength but unity in its own, is strength and might." We, the African people of Zimbabwe, are reaching the end of our tether. We have sustained enough humiliation and domination, our patience is nearing its utmost limits and we cannot stomach this anymore. The only course left, it seems, is to demonstrate and perpetuate our day to day relentless struggle against the fascist regime of the cow-boys until, they give in to our demands and rights. Anybody who has the eyes to see and ears to hear, can gauge that the situation in Zimbabwe has reached a stage that the country has never experienced since the birth of African Nationalism in Central Africa. Militancy in whatever you do, as an African fighting for your liberty, is the order of the day. Acts of sabotage, arson, bombings, stone throwing and attacks on European property and persons are increasing in occurence. Frustration has reached the pitch and the African is prepared even to go to the gallows for doing the most dastardly acts to regain his stolen rights, as a human being. Then the world screams, 'Barbarism' but forgets and its closesheyes to the real cause of these acts. It is inequality, humility,economic and social injustice and the vote we are denied because we are black. The scourge of minority rule has been allowed to go on unchecked that they have reached a stage where they forget that the country belongs to the Africans and ly that virture must rule. The Nazi-like regime of Smith and his gang has brought nothing good but misery and blood-shed to both the Europeans and the Africans. These are the kind of people we are fighting against. We want equAity, we want to manage our own affairs in our country. The European must be part and parcel to the advancement of our country but not as a master. The European must learn to live under a Black Government and cherish to live with an African as his own equal and compatriot. We have nothing against the Whites but their policies of domination and exploitation and these.we will fight against until they are wiped from our country. Whatever happens in Zimbabwe, the blame lies squarely on the British Government. They are responsible for the 1923 constitution and its implementation on the then illiterate African masses and they are again responsible for the imposition of the 1961 constitution against the wishes of the Africans who registered their rejection of this constitution during the N.D.P. (now banned) referendumrto which they (the British Government) ?paid a deaf ear and told us it was the best we could get as if we don't know what is good and bad for us. If Britain thinks it can appease its. kith and kin at the detriment ard expense of the African, then she better think again. We have reached a point of no return and we have vowed that underwhat comes, our forces will be victors in our struggle for our liberty. Cont.../ Britain must learn the lesson the Smiths, of'our country are recognising that with cruel, barbaric laws, dotafltions, heavy jail sentences for petty crimes and restrictions on their side, still they cannot stop the advancenent and aspirations of the Africans in Zimbabwe. We have set our coursb and we will stubbornly pursue it until the end. Our Pilot, Mr. Joshua Nkomo, will, with all our resources at our disposal and our crave for self government and determination to get it, see us through these troubled timos to victory and prosperity.* The talk by some British journals and ro-nown politicians, that Sir Roy Wolonsky is the saviour of Zimbawo is the kind of talk you hoar from misguided pooplo who plunge into topics they do..not know much about. 6 Sir Roy Wolensky, during his reign in the Federal days, learnt nothing and gained nothing. He is the sane brazen, self-contained individual who believes he knows all the answers to the African solution and thinks he is an export in the Zimbabwe crisis. Roy is as much a person who believes in "handing over to the Africans' as the Qossest folly one can comit just as Smith does. They (Smith and Roy) all believe in the policy of 'blood -is thicker than water' and close their minds to the fact that the African is just as able' to rule as he is able to talk politics. This talk of 'lowering standards, and giving power to 'inexperienced hands' is now out of time as far as Africa is concerned. If Malawi, Zambia and the rest of independent African States can rule themselves why can't Zimbabwcas do it? The only solution is obvious to all the Roubting Thomases and the British Government - Majority rule. All Britain must do is call for a constitutional conference whore the people will be represented by thdir lead6r", Mr. Joshua Nkomo, to hammer-out a constitution giving the miority the right to run the country and then we will be out of the miserable state in which Zimbabwe has boon plunged into, by Smith's regime.
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