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Nuzn 1 9 9 6 Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News Official Organ of ZANU PF Department of Information and Publicitv, 144 Union Avenue, Harare Tel: 790148 Volume 27, No. 11 1996, Registeredat the G.RO as a Newspaper OCTOBER 1996 $2.50 (incl. sales tax) Machel was murdered Page 5 Pregnancy and equality Page 11 Affirmative Action: The theory and practice Page 16 Zimbabwe News Official Organ of ZANU PF Contents Editorial Cover Story Special Report National News Business News Viewpoint Talking Point Environment.-] Issues I Write As I Like Health Features International News Consumer File Books Sport Zimbabwe's hour of darkness .................................................................................................. 3 Samora the greatest .................................................................................................................... 5 Home-grown economic reforms welcome .............................................................................. 7 Is the W orld Bank changing? ................................................................................................. 8 A future without Lome ................................................................................................................ 8 Rich club losing interest in Africa ............ ............................................ 9 Is pregnancy a hinderance to equality? ........................................................................................ I I W ho controls Africa's natural resources? ............ i..; ............................................................... 12 Nations urged to guard against toxic waste dumping ............................................................ 12 Let us all support the solar programme ................................................................................... 14 Adequate policies on AIDS needed ......................................................................................... 14 No death penalty in new SA constitution ................................................................................ 15 Affirmative Action: The theory and the practice ...................................................................... 16 New China at 47 .............................................................................................................................. 18 The Labour Party ....................................................................................................................... 19 Abusive language not welcome ............................................................................................... 21 Children in the New Southern Africa .................................................................................... 22 1996 soccer review ....... ................................................ 22 Zimbabwe News is the official organ of the Zimbabwe African National Union ZANU PF and is produced on the authority of the Central Committee by the Department of Information and Publicirty, Jongwe Printing and Publishing Co., No. 14 Austin Road, Worldngton, Harare World Copyright, Central Committee (ZANU PF) Editorial Council: Cde. N.M. Shamuyarira, Cde. C.C. Chimulengwende, Cde;-C. Ndhlovu, Cde. S. Kachingwe, Cde. A. Sikhosana. ZIMBABWE NEWS VOL. 27 NO. 11 Editorial Never say die GARY Magadzire is no more. The people of Zimbabwe accept that reality. They also uphold the fact that his selfless contributions towards the promotion of the stafus of communal farmers and the rural population in general has transformed him from being a mortal into an immortal being. A natural hero. The ZANU PF culture of sincerely evaluating a person's contributions to the country and honouring them accordingly has taught the people of Zimbabwe to know themselves. They now know that for them, there is no human master. Nature is our servant. It is up to us to use nature for our economic benefit. It we want to be real men in control of all things common to man, we can do so and be truly our own masters. Gary Magadzire proved it in real life and left us a legacy that teaches us that if we fail to hold onto the right to rule ourselves, we will be reduced to the level of the lower animals. If we are not in a position to determine our own destiny then someone else will do that for us. It will be as if we are lower animals and that which the 'real man" bids us do, we shall obey like a donkey, a horse, acow or a dog. If its master says "Go", it goes; if he says "Come", it comes. Up until the year 1980, the people of Zimbabwe had been in the position of being commanded just like the lower animals. Were it not for people like Gary Magadzire, a man of character who understood the evil nature of the age we were living in and took steps to correct it, who quickly realised that the African people in Zimbabwe had no will, no purpose of their own and worked tirelessly for our people to regain their human dignity, we would still be slaves. During the colonial era, there were many who professed to be leaders of the Africans in this country. When the test came they were found to be slaves of the colonialists. They were there to perform the will of their masters without questions. Not so with Gary Magadzire. He was clear that the people of Zimbabwe were colonised and must be liberated. He was confident that no matter how difficult the task was, or how long it took, the people were going to succeed. He had faith in the future of a liberated Zimbabwe and left no stone unturned in his efforts to bring that about. It is through reading the life histories of men such as Gary Magadzire that we learn the reality that a man has no master but God. That man in his own authority, is his own master. That from the individual man is born a nation which also carries the same characteristics of sovereignty. This feeling makes man so courageous, so bold as to make it impossible for anyone to temper with his human ights. It takes people like Gary Magadzire to understand what it takes to make a man who will never say die, a man who will never give up, a man who will never depend upon others to do for him what he ought to do for himself. A man who will not blame nature or fate for his condition, but a man who will take bold steps to make conditions suit himself and the people. That was Gary Magadzire's life, an illustrious son of Zimbabwe. May he rest in peace. ZIMBABWE NEWS VOL. 27 NO.11 Bo Zvrzzk Story Cde Magadzire - a reputable leader, farmer and politician o ne of Africa's most illustrous sons is no more. Garikayi Magadzire, Zimbabwe's own testimon' of the intellectually, economical* and politically able Africans, pased away after a short stay at Hasre's Parirenyatwa Hospital on Tuesday. 22 October 1996 at the aRe of 59. But like all those great men who have fallen before him, his works will certalniy live on to tell the rest of the world a story that shall survive the test of time. He was buried at the national shrine on Saturday, 26 October 1996 before thousands of people from all walks of life. Born on 16 August 1937 in Tivugari, Shurugwi, in a family of ten - three boys and seven girls, he was a direct fourth generation descendent of Munhumutapa, the Rovi King. Garikayi was raised in Matabeleland but went to schools in the Chivi area. Owing to lack of money to pay for his fees, he dropped out and secured a clerical job at Gaths mine. Here, Gary did not stay long as he was cancelled out of the payroll on the grounds that he was under-aged. Luck was with him a few years later when Reverend Samkange (now late) sponsored him back to school for Standard 5 and 6 at Pakame Mission. Because he was a brilliant pupil, he went on to secure a place at Tegwani Methodist Mission in Plumtree but was soon expelled for being a Seventh Day Adventist. ZIMBABWE NEWS VOL. 27 NO. 11 Gary got a job at Selbourne Furnitures where he met a samaritan who arranged for his acceptance at Tsolo College of Agriculture in South Africa. However, after a year, he was expelled for defying racial dormitory boundaries as he constantly crossed over to the whites-only residence. Back home former head of Tsqlo College who was now at Mzingwane College in Essexvale (now Esigodini), facilitated for 'his return to school and in 1958, Gary graduated from the institute and joined Tobacco Research Centre as a professional advisor. Immediately after, he was asked by the settler government to serve a two- year bonding agreement. He was posted to Fort Victoria (now Masvingo) in 1959.,Here, he married his frist wife, Ettie Hungwe, in 1960. After spending nine years in the Victor, ia Province, Cde. Magadzire joined a fertiliser company, Windmill as a sales representative and rose through the ranks to become chief marketing manager. Come 1979, Cde. Garikayi Magadzire was elected president of the Zimbabwe National Farmers Union while between 1976 and 1978, he had served as vice president of the African Farmers Union. When the Zimbabwe National Farmers Union and the National Farmers Association of Zimbabwe merged in 1991 to form the Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU), he was unanimously elected pregident of the new organisation. All in all, the new organisation represented about one million farmers. He was repeatedly elected ZFU president and was still in this capacity at the time of his untimely death. Cde. Garikayi Magadzire's influence in agriculture spread across the region and the continent as a whole. .In his country, he served on various .statutory boards. Tribal Land Corporation, was vice chairman of the Land' ,Resettlement and Cotton Marketifg boards; served on the
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