Zimbabwe News LET US FIGHT AND Offidal Organ of ZANU(PF) REBUILD ZIMBABWE Department of Information and Publicity tiTffWmit P"nrl Workington. Harare Volume 18 No. 11, November 1987. RegtHHSif as a Newspaper THE ZANU (PF) NATIONAL FUND RAISING CAMPAIGN LAUNC £2 IN OUR QUIZ For operating economy the question isn't whether you should choose Mercedes, it's which Mercedes. As candidate for "Best Truck for ttie Job" a Mercedes- Benz starts with built-in advantages. No truck is more ZIMOCO durable or reliable. And in engineering terms, it's the thoroughbred in the field. The Mercedes-Benz range LIMITED also optimises your chances of finding the right truck. All over Zimbabwe you'll find a network of Zimoco dealers who are equipped to look after your motoring requirements. It is their pleasure to keep your Mercedes in peak condition, one of the safest vehicles to drive on today's roads. Meticulous engineering doesn't cost you. It pays you I would find it very demeaning to tiave to go outside Zimbabwe to soli4lt funds for tlie construction of ttie ruling Party's national fiome because it should in the main be the owner of the home who pays for the establish ment of that home and not an outsider and since ZAND (PF) is the peb- ple, it is my hope that we shall be able to raise the required amount from aJI our people if only in recognition of the role ZAND (PF) has played improving their lot (PM). page 4 SAMORA MACHEL perceived Southern Africa as a region of its own l<ind, with its own identity and with a unique racial and ethnic diversity in Africa . page 18 Tie October Revolution lives forever . page13 Contents rditoriai 2 1 etters.,; - 2 tJew Party HQ National Fund Raising Campaign is Launched 4 /i.partheid is unacceptable 6 'he One Party State 8 World Habitat Day 10 )isarm for Development 12 he October Revolution lives forever 13 nvolve the People in Development — PM 16 >amora — A bold and dauntless Warrior 18 "estimony of the National Blacl< United Front 23 )n School Examinations 25 Jandit Movement's goal-chaos 28 he Book as a tool of Development : 29 )ecolonlse News 31 ^re Multiparties necessary? Do The Mikhail Gorbachev Era in the USSR 32 parties make a difference? . The a parthy of the Azanian Musicians 34 page 8 Communique of the Executive Committee of the Palestine -iberation Organisation 36 Reagan insists on war — Central America demands peace . , ,37 =eace pipe or war path? 38 3alvadorian People Fight On 39 Consumer Advice 40 Poetry 41 Quiz No. 5 and answers to Quu No '3 42 Zimbabvtfe News is the fifficial News 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 Publicity, Jongwe Printing and Publishing Co., No, 14 Austin Road, Workington, Harare. World Copyright, Central Com• mittee [ZANU (PF)1. Editorial Council: Cde. N.M. Shamuyaira; Cde. S.S. Mumbengegwi; Cde. C. Ndhlovu; Cde. J. Zvobgo; Cde. K. Batsirayi; Cde. M. Munyati; Cde. C. Nduku (Managing) Piclutes by Jongwe Arcriives. Zimbabwe News papers and tulinistrv of rnlormation EDITORIAL Whither Minority Parties October, 1987 saw significant developments in Zim• should provide important lessons to the minority babwe's Legislature. The central feature of these parties who must reflect seriously on "whither they changes was the role of ZAND (PF), in not only want to go". It must also prompt a close re• spearheading the changes, but also in consolidating examination on the part of the minority supporters its control of the legislative arm of the state who have created false hopes around individuals and machinery. parochial and sectional interests. The abolition of the reserved twenty white seats Now is the time for the minority parties to pose marked the final demise of racial representation, that and answer the question whether to continue indulg• obnoxious feature of the Lancaster House constitu• ing in self deception and irrelevance or to contribute tion. That the 20 vacant seats were successfully fill• to meaningful development by joining the majority ed up by members of ZANU (PF) or candidates Party. backed by t!ie Party, further exposes the reality of Whilst ZANU (PF) has declared its willingness to the Zimbabwean practical movement: that ZANU accommodate genuine members from minority par• (PF) is the real representative of the people and that ties, it cannot bend over-backwards to entertain it controls effective political power. unrealistic demands from forces whose irrelevance History repeated itself a week later, when, once has been clearly demonstrated. again, the ZANU (PF) candidates and those spon• It is our sincere hope that the Parliamentary elec• sored by the Party swept all the Senate seats. tions provided important lessons for the minority Although minority parties fielded their own can• parties and that they will seriously consider the on• didates, it was a futile exercise in self deception which ly viable option: joining the peoples choice, ZANU further exposed their irrelevance in modern day Zim• (PF). babwe. The overwhelming ZANU (PF) victory LETTERS The Editor, Dynamos must answer Saturday and hadn't done well, it was a United would not make much sense. It is an established fact that Dynamos forgone conclusion that not many fans Futhermore, in the light of what happen• Football club is a crowd puller because would attend the international friendly ed which contributed to that defeat to in• it is the most popular team in Zimbabwe. the morrow. Dynamos had no commit• fer that Dynamos could not raise a for• This has led the club to be referred to as ment during the whole weekend but opted midable team due to wrangles within the "The Seven Million". Also undisputable to let the Bulawayo based club, not so club is hard to believe. Thus Dynamos is that the club, of all others in this coun• popular in Harare, fatigued and which has enjoyed more than two decades try has been exposed to international demoralised as they were, to play the of popular support in Zimbabwe owes an football much more than before. Zambians. explanation and perhaps an apology to However, what worries me is why the Surely most people who share my opi• the public and the authorities that be. An club declined to play against The Zam- nion would want to know on which side apology because, in my view refusing to bian side, Kabwe Worriors on Sunday of the struggle Dynamos Ls. To say that play for such an important cause only the 25th for purposes of raising funds for they were still smarting from the defeat manifests the team's unpatriotic, selfish, the building of ihe long-overdue new during the Quarter Finals of the ZIFA retrogressive and counter-revolutionary ZANU (PF) HQ. Knowing that cup last Wednesdays! the hands of Caps inclinations. Highlanders of Bulawdyo had played on 2 ZIMBABWE NEWS NOVEMBER, 1987 In the light of the afore mentioned, I quent election of non-constituency MPs', During the war against oppression, most and others would like to hear a full ex• whites have been returned to Parliament, of the Coloureds* never identified planation from a Dynamos representative thanks to the ZANU (PF) vote. Because themselves with the struggle, let alone stating explicitly the cause of this of this racial cooperation, those whites ZANU (PF). As far as blacks were con• unbecoming behaviour from their camp. who initially ran away are now coming cerned, Coloureds were fellow sufferers back having found things not all that rosy of oppression. But it seems apart from a across the Limpopo. The Asians, who few dedicated Coloured nationalists, the have traditionally been characterised by rest did not mind the segregation because their political, economic and social they were accorded a better status than aloofness, have emerged from their social blacks. After independence and with the shell, making giant strides in their call for national reconciliation, surely this endeavours to cooperate with the govern• negative attitude should have changed? ment and party. It is common knowledge that in the Dear Editor, The African continent's blacks are 1985 general elections, a substantial known for their remarkable capacity for number of coloureds voted for Ian I would like to express my humble forgiving their past colonial oppressor's Smith's reactionary and racist party, in• views in your highly informative degradation of their personality. In Zim• stead of opting for the Independents who magazine. We now have our in• babwe, blacks were quick to respond to had pledged to work with the govern• dependence but only after thousands of the call ""for national reconciliation ment. ZANU (PF) is here to stay. It is a our countrymen sacrificed their lives in although the brutalities of the past regime party for everyone, black, white, brown the struggle against gross injustices were still fresh in their minds. There were or yellow. Hard core racists have aban• brought about by colonialism and racism. obviously millions who cherished doned Smith, repented and joined the Before independence, our country had vengeance but today, there is more racial peoples' party. What can the Coloured a three tier economic and social system harmony than has ever existed. population's foolish and impotent vendet• based on race. The whites were the most ta against the peoples' party benefit privileged, the Asians and Coloureds oc• So, with this racial harmony and a them? cupying the second echelon and the blacks sense of loyalty to the state taking root, were delegated to the lowest rung. This where do the Coloured people stand? People of mixed race are all over black obnoxious system was scrapped by the Seven years after independence, they Africa.