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Zimbabwe News, Vol. 27, No. 6 Zimbabwe News, Vol. 27, No. 6 http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.nuzn199605 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 News, Vol. 27, No. 6 Alternative title Zimbabwe News Author/Creator Zimbabwe African National Union Publisher Zimbabwe African National Union (Harare, Zimbabwe) Date 1996-05-00 Resource type Magazines (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Zimbabwe, South Africa Coverage (temporal) 1996 Source Northwestern University Libraries, L968.91005 Z711 v.27 Rights By kind permission of ZANU, the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front. Description Comment: Prison conditions. Cover Story: Prison conditions deplored. Feature: Arms and peace in South Africa. National News: Government behind clean up efforts. Africa File: Stiff test for government and ANC over Amakhosi and weapons. Atomic agency turns to primary health care. Talking Point: Processes in Zimbabwe's politico-economic policies. Women's Forum: Patricia MacFadden on gender issues. I Write as I Like: Confidence in self determination. Special Report: A friend in need is a friend indeed. Business: Shot in the arm for local companies. Viewpoint: Pan Africanism and the second liberation of Africa. Democracy and democratic centralism in ZANU PF. Perspective: Contradictions in the Zimbabwe economy. News Update: DPRK warns USA, South Korea. Masvingo tops the list. Mugoba becomes army public relations director. Recent events in S. Africa add to stability. Arts: Theatre creates employment for youth. Obituary: Reverend James Charles Mtero passes away. Ron Brown - 1942-1996. Sport: Don Black profile. European football championship draw. Format extent 36 page(s) (length/size) http://www.aluka.org http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.nuzn199605 http://www.aluka.org ews ews Official Organ o: ANU PF Depatment of ,oatlon and Publicity, 144 Union Avenue, Harare, T: 790148 Volume 27, No. 1t996, Registered at the GPRO as a Newspaper mAt 1996 '? tax)bl P~ I4~ us 1if'iir NMtero remembered Zimbabwe News Official Organ of ZANU PF Contents COMMENT: COVER STORY: FEATURE: NATIONAL NEWS: AFRICA FILE: TALKING POINT: WOMEN'S FORUM: I WRITE AS ILIKE: SPECIAL REPORI. BUSINESS: VIEWPOINT: PERSPECTIVE: NEWS UPDATE: ARTS: OBITUARY: SPORT: Prison conditions ..... .................................................................................. 2 Prison conditions deplored ........................................................................................ 3 Arm s and peace in South Africa .................................................................................... 4 Governm ent behind clean up efforts .......................................................................... 5 Stiff test for government and ANC over Amakhosi and weapons ................................ 6 Atom ic agency turns to prim ary health care ................................................................ 7 Processes in Zimbabwe's politico-economic policies ................................................... 8 Patricia M acFadden on gender issues ........................................................................... 9 Confidence in self determ ination ............................................................................... 12 A friend in need is a friend indeed .............................................................................. 14 Shot in the arm for local companies ........................................................................... 16 Pan Africanism and the second liberation of Africa .................................................... 17 Democracy and democratic centralism in ZANU PF .................................................... 18 Contradictions in the Zimbabwe econom y .................................................................... 20 DPRK warns USA , South Korea ................................................................................... 21 M asvingo tops the list ................................................................................................... 22 M ugoba becom es army public relations director ........................................................ 22 Recent events in S. Africa add to stability ................................................................. 23 Theatre creates employment for youth ................................ 23 Reverend James Charles M tero passes away .............................................................. 24 Ron Brown - 1942-1996 ............................................................................................. 25 Don Black profile ........................................................................................................ 26 European football cham pionship draw .......................................................................... 28 I-M 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. 14Austin Road, Workinglon. 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. 27 NO. 6 C. EDITORIAL Prison conditions THIS month's cover story is about the Report of the Parliamentary Departmental Committee on Security Ministries which was presented to Parliament on March 5, 1996. The.Report concentrates on prison conditions in Zimbabwe. However, the 12-member committee, chaired by General T.R.S. Mujuru (Rtd), presented liberation recommendatiors for prison inmates while avoiding to pin-point the areas needing corrective attention. "Your Committee", the report tells Parliament," feels that depriving inmates of their relish, which in most cases would be available, except for the efforts to serve it, is utmost inhumane abuse of inmates." When one reads this statement, one cannot escape from the impression that the Department of Prisons is unhumanely abusing the "rights" of prison inmates. In giving an overview of prison conditions, the Report says: "The acute shortage of the prisoners' provisions was sharply felt in all the provisions visited by your Committee. These shortages included tooth paste, bathing and washing soap, detergents, cleaning material, tissue papers and prisoners' uniforms. In most cases, the prisoners were left with no choice but to wear filthy, smelly and tattered rags which reduced them to some miserable and wretchedlooking lot." Yet, this generalised debasement of prison conditions is refuted by evidence gathered at some prisons which are well administered in the country. For example, the Report says about Mutimurefu Prison in Masvingo: "Although Mutimurefu, like all other prisons in the country, was experiencing a shortage of funds, consumables and other things, it was being properly administered and the inmates has nothing to say about the Prison Staff. Your Committee wishes to express its appreciation at the transparent manner the prison seemed to be operating." The Committee did not distinguish between properly administered prisons and those maladministered. Furthermore, the Committee did not bother to find out why some prisons had competent administrators while others had none. More importantly, the Committee did not investigate the following crucial areas: 1) the quality of training and recruitment of prison officers; 2) reasons for the increase in the prison population; 3) statistical ratio of minor offenders to hard-core criminals in order to determine forms of penal correction; 4) the nature of prison reforms needed for future programmes, etc. It is surprising that this august Committee, composed of wellknown and tested revolutionaries, could adopt ZimRights phraises like. "prisoners are subjected to the most humiliating experience of being paraded all the way to the courts each time they made an appearance." They talked about "rights" of prisoners. Once a person if made a prisoner, the major portion of laws protecting individual human rights is suspended automatically and replaced with mere privileges to be applied at the discretion of prison officers. Prisoners lose, upon imprisonment, their rights and freedoms regarding: movement, speech, assembly, the right to elect or to be elected to public office, the right of association, the right to be served one's favourite menu at dinner time, etc. The only rights which are universally not deprived of
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