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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 Review, Vol. 2, No. 6 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 1964-02-24 Resource type Magazines (Periodicals) Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Zimbabwe, United Kingdom Coverage (temporal) 1963 - 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: The Perilous Struggle. Police Provoke Again- Teargas at Nkomo's House: Bulawayo- 9/2/64. Salisbury Too. Terror Hits S. Rhodesia. Petrol Bombs Thrown at PCC Homes. Latest News of the Week. S. Rhodesia Men in America. Two Meetings Banned in Umtali. Dupont Protects Salazaar. Nkala is a Worried Man-Outcast by His Tribal Clique. Dupont Murders Again. Format extent 7 page(s) (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.nuzr19640224 http://www.aluka.org Vol. 2 Vol. 2 'If No. 6 . 24/2/,64. EMBASSY OF THEAflI UNITED STATX OF, AMERICA FEB 19,4 IToRIA L ................. N2I IN I THE PMIlOUS STRUGGLE The strug le for the survival of setttlerism in S. Rhodesia is enterinC its most perilous st- Le. The only card left for them is their threat to declare unilateral independence. This also has value in so far as it has not been tried. Looking at. the general consequences objectively, such a step is as good as flying into the precipioe. What steps the settlers take to cling onto power is of concern to us in so far as our strategy in defeating them is possible, the rightness of our position and our determination to succeed is a fact most glaring to the settlers themslves hence their enxiety. This -eek Dupont, settler Minister of Law and Order has tuileashed his police to arrest hundreds of Africans in the hop-e of halting the tide that is about to sweep away sftlerism. He is unaware that by this step, he is openinG the ;ates for the flood to draw nearer its target. There is nothing new in these arrests, nor is there anything new in the Wha-Wha camp and of-course much moreso nothing new in the settler hopes for such mass arfests. lahVlha is Whitehead's monumaent of failure to stamp out African nationalism by mass arrests and ve just wonder what miracle Dupont hopes to produce by beating this threed-bare path. The 1nly mira2cle we can see is to bring temporaryOc3olation to the settler vopulation that is now overweig.hed by t'e oncoming take-over of power by the Africans. There is nevertheless an impoetant aspect to Dupont's move of arresting our people. His opening remarks are indicative; he says "since August 1964when a silit occurred in the African nationalist political world two mutually hostile national political organisations were set up." We the African people of Zimbabwe do not know of any two "national political organisations." There can only be one national organisation over the political interests of people. If there are two organisations purporting to serve a common interest only one can be genui e and national. There has never been any doubt as to the nationalentity of ZAYJ - barring oonfusionists.. Cont. Clearly Dupont is attempting a vell-timed political master-stroke of trying to project the image of a split in the African political circles despite the accomplished fact that ZANU has suffered a pblitical decay. We are in no doubt that Dupont's attempt to cripple ZAPU (POC) is yet another desperate effort to help poor Reverend Sithole to remain on the scene if only to retain the name ZANU in order to perpetuate the image of a split. PCC was banned from holding any public meeting of the 7th of November, 1963 for 3 months. The peoples national President Joshua Nkomo was simultaneously banned from addresing any gathering in the country. For three solid months ZANU had all S. Rhodesia to itself to organise and attraot the masoss. They failed. When the ban on PCC was~bout to expire early this month, February, Dupont extended the ban for another thee'months and simultaneously banned the "3oeple's national President Joshua Hkomo from moving near Salisbury or from entering African areas. Inspite of these measures the Rev. Sithole and his ZANU have failed to budge with the solid masses of Zimbabwe. They hrve then complained of intimidation and violence and requested Dupont to arrest all PCC organisers and the general African public whom they fear. This, hoever, does not help Sithole or whosoever supports him. We shall rout ruthlessly seterism and its agencies. (1) POLICE PROVOKE AGAIN - TEARGAS AT NKOMO'S HOUSE: In Bulawayo on February 9, the repressive and oppressive police forces of the Minister of Injustice, Law and Order, Clifford Dupont, used teargas shells to dis erse peaceful crowds which had gathered at the house of the Life President of the PCC (ZAPU), Mr. Ukomo, to sing and entertain their leader. The settler police, jealous as they are, forcibly tried to disperse these singing and chanting crowds. They threw tear :as shells without even telling the people to disperse. Some of the shells fell right at the door-steps of Mr. Nkono's house. The crowds, having been irritated by this savage and uncalled-for settler police action, ran arlk, grabbing one European constable and breaking his ar. When the police tried to make arrests, the riot theft spread all over the Bulawayo townships. There was serious stoning, in almost all the townshins in Bulawayo. No European-driven car had any chance of passing through the African townshps. Police reservists were kept running up and down, whistles replaced the usual church bells and police trucks were greeted with showers of stones fron the Africans. 'No priest could attempt leaving the church grounds, no stooge had any chance of drinking a pint of beer, everything was at a d.nger point. SALISBURY TOO ......... Because the settler p)olice in S. Rhodesia are competing for medals and ranks, because they have one thing in con:on - that of 'provoking the African in order to shoot hii', the Salisbury branch of the police force, after having learnt of the Bulawayo troubles, went around the Salisbury African townships of Harare and Highfields, provoking the people in the pubs. After this provocation, thenasses reacted sharply and stones were the ordcr of the day. In Harare, no European-driven car could ever pass throug;h the Ardbennie Road. Police jeeps were terribly snashed, windows shattered, police satellite stations attacked, and police reservists aribushed. Any inperialist business in Harare was destroyed completely. In Highfileds, police patrols were constant as the rioting spread from Harare. Beerhalls were de':erted, cars stoned, stooges frognarched. Stones replaced the swallows in that township. In the eveining of that same day, the field forces of Field were called in to help the police, helicopters and spotter planes buzzed in the cool breeze as smoke from the burnt buildings replaced the clouds4. As things worsened in both the Bulawayo and Salisbury African townships, the settler Minister of the ROTTEN Law and Disorder, Clifford Dupont was -anicing an nunablq, .-$il a .solution to it, CONT.. Because an idle brain is the Devil's workshop, Dupont's brain, mixed with ice-water as it is, was b~ing tempered with by the boer ancestors of whom Dupont is a descendant. He was drafting another order against our leader Mr. N1komo. He linked the Bulawayo disturbances and the Salisbury rioting with Mr. N1koyno, and then imposed a ban on him, prohibiting him from ad-ressing any gathering for another THRED MOI THS. T1{is ban on Mr. Nkomo is about the l1th if not the 12th irrposed on him in less thanitwo nonths. But we ;,ust say that despite all these savaoo and unrealistic bans imposed on our leader, our forces are marching forward and anyone wiho still believes in perpetual domination of the Africans, whether by usin- the -oolice or the Army, will learn the harsh lesson of history that you cannot oppress people without dire consequences to yourself. The more our leader is banned from being a person, the stronger our forces will be against any form of capitalism, inperialism and old and-new colonialism. We are not going to entertain settlerdom because the settlers have got guns.