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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 News, Vol. 26, No. 1 Alternative title Zimbabwe News Author/Creator Zimbabwe African National Union Publisher Zimbabwe African National Union (Harare, Zimbabwe) Date 1995-01-00? Resource type Magazines (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Zimbabwe, Angola, South Africa, China, U.S.S.R. Coverage (temporal) 1995 Source Northwestern University Libraries, L968.91005 Z711 v.26 Rights By kind permission of ZANU, the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front. Description Editorial. Letters. National News: Opposition to ZANU PF defined. Central Committee standing committees established. General election directorate formed. Politburo deputies announced. Naiveties in the struggle for gender equality. Ex-detainees want recognition. ZANU PF conducts door-to-door campaign. Traditional healers increase search for AIDS cure. Biographies: Peter Musende - ZANU PF chairman, Mashonaiand East. Afonso Dhiakama - master of theatrics. Alfred Nzo- SA Minister of Foreign Affairs. Aziz Pahad - South African deputy minister of Foreign Affairs. Regional News: Poll that puts us to shame. Deputies elected to the Mozambican Assembly. A post-mortem of the Mozambican elections. Rural water management conquers drought. Features: Parental and child care in China. New job opportunities for the disabled. Hearing aids for deaf and normal ears. International news: Soviets funded Italy's communists. Iraq's showpiece school system crumbles under sanctions. Canada missed chance to save Gandhi. DPRK releases song praising Kim Jong Il. US expands reservists role. Cuba, an idea that has to be saved. China to have social security system by 2000. Special Reports: Angola: Peace brings hope for economic development. A http://www.aluka.org new theory on the origins of man. Talking Point: Well done ZESA. Inconsistencies in US foreign policy on nuclear weapons. Sport: All Africa Games. Chronology of Diego Maradona's soccer career. Lenox Lewis breaking the mould. Format extent 44 page(s) (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.nuzn199501 http://www.aluka.org ZANU PF ZANU PF E l, Department of Information and Publicity, 14 Austin Road y, Peace and Development Volume 26, No. 1, 1995, Registered at the GPO as a Newspaper Qenerat etecion direciuafe formed 1ufat wafe gtuagemen i Zimbabwe News 1: 7 Official Organ of ZANU PF 0AE~ Zimbabwe News is the official organ of the ZimbabweAfrican National Union (ZANU PF) and is produced on the authority of the Central Committee by the Department of Information and Publicity, Jongwe Printing and Publishing Co., No. 14 Austin Road, Workington, Harare. World Copyright, Central Committee (ZANU PF). Editorial Council: Cde. N.M. Shamuyarira, Cde. C.C. Chimutengwende, Cde. C. Ndhlovu, Cde. S. Kachingwe, Cde.A. Sikhosana, Cde. M. Munyati. ZIMBABWE NEWS VOL: 26 No. 1, 1995 Editorial ZANU PF must guard against complacency With the country's fourth general elections scheduled for March this year, the Party is advised to ensure that serious preparations for the polls, especially the selection of its candidates through primaries for the general eletctions, are done in time to give theprimary elections winners and the Party as a whole enough time to campaign. Organisation and conclusion of the primaries reflect the fulfilment of ZANU PF's long term aim of incalculating the principle of democracy into the minds and political ethos of Zimbabwe. As a revolutionary Party, ZANU PF unflinchingly subscribes to the tenet that democracy begins with the participatory involvement of the masses. Party members, sympathisers and well-wishers will be bound by internal Party democracy in support of the wishes of the majority and vote for the candidates who are democratically elected by the grassroot masses for the forthcoming Parliamentary elections. While it is obvious that ZANU PF candidates will walk over their opponents, the Party is faced with the mammoth task of organising a vigorous election campaign aimed at yielding a resounding victory. Since 1980, ZANU PF has emerged victorious in all elections and it has an outstanding record of one success after another. The certainty of victory, however, must not lead the Party into being overconfident - it must set itself to achieve a record turnout for the elections. / Apathy and complacency. on the part of the supporters can be the Party's real opposition. In the light of the above, there is need for the Party machinery to be consolidated both in material and personnel terms in preparation for the polls. There is also need for voter mobilisation for the more voters there will be, the better the chances of a resounding victory, and hence the campaign should stress the voters' duty to cast their votes. The Party and its government's, programmes and performance have always been in the interest of the people. While this is public knowledge, the Party still needs to devise a vigorous programme which should be double-pronged as it seeks, on the one hand, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the people-oriented nature of the policies it has been pursuing and desires to continue pursuing, and on the other hand, to raise high hopes and expectations on the part of the majority of the people of a better future if they vote for its policies and programmes. ZANU PF continues, and will forever continue to justify the confidence and trust of the masses by tirelessly striving for the satisfaction of the wishes of the majority. Victory is certain. 10 . 2 ZIMBABWE NEWS. VOLUME 2s No. I s the count-down to the national It is unfortunate that innocent people ctions is now on and the con- have been the victims of the Reverend's testing parties gear up for cam- cunningly calculated money-making paigning, one wonders what is in store machinations. He has been exposed as for the voters. Present indications dearly the most unscrupulous Machiavellian inshow that there will not be any marked triguer. His refusal to vacate the farm difference between the previous elec- was cleverly woven in order to divert the tions and the forthcoming one. This is attention of the homeless Zimbabweans not surprising considering the inescapa- and portray the government as the ble truth that the so- called opposition wrong-doer. Now it's all over bar the parties have not been able to come up shouting! with any new socio-economic policies of national importance so as to woo the voters. If anything, the minority parties have degenerated into inconsequential microscopic groupings. The so-called mergers which have been formed have disintegrated and crumbled. One would have thought that the leaders of these opposition parties would come to their senses and realise that they are doing the nation a disservice and irreparable harm. They are, in fact, insulting the intelligence of discerning voters as they continue to waffle and babble about how bad ZANU PF is both as a political party and as a government. The Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole elects to square up against government by establishing a squatter camp near the capital city. He is now stinking rich with the money he has been collecting from his "tenants", innocent Zimbabweans whom he has exploited over years and have now been jettisoned to lighten the Reverend's sinking vessel. On top of that, he adopts a defiant and contumacious stance when ordered to vacate Churu .farm by law officers. No legitimate, popularly elected government can tolerate an individual who operates an illegal business venture. Mr. Sithole knew exactly that what he was doing at Churu farm was illegal in terms of the law of the land. He has made enough money to last him a lifetime even if he chose to live the life style of the Rich and Famous on Malibu Island. And it is his defiarice of the law which has kept him in the limelight rather than his political ideology. Good riddance now that the law has finally taken its course. But what sticks out as a sore thump is that the Reverend stands impeached in the eyes of the nation, albeit in the abstract sense. Now he will have only his clansmen to beguile. And when the man of God talks of a government of "national unity", it becomes clear that the Reverend has reached an advanced stage of senescence. He is so desperate to have his name inserted in the annals of history as having been a government minister in an independent Zimbabwe. In any case, wasn't he part of the shortlived "government" of the so-called Rhodesia-Zimbabwe? That deed carved for him a niche in the history of this country, albeit a history sanguined With innocent blood. Therefore the talk of a government of national unity is absurd in the extreme.