MOST Zambians are amused by the frenzy about the personal security of the Queen of England. Her Majesty invariably hospitality.
By contrast 2,500 people conservative estimate -killed in recent Rhodesian raids on Zambia. The latest express warning to Zambia against Prime Ministers Conference Lusaka.
The anxiety about the Queen's safety has been whipped up in Fleet Street TO heap discredit Zimbabwean liberation The Rhodesian regime is hardly likely to threaten the British monarch at a time when the Tory be creeping diplomatic recognition. And, Joshua Nkomo of ZAPU will concerned lobbying conference than with blowing it up.
Queen will sheltered from the real Zambia. She will be shown no sign of an economy devastated by the Well Rhodesians. In the south country, whole areas have depopulated, leaving crops unharvested or rotting in storerooms. Kazangula ferry, the trade link with Botswana, has been cutting off 14,000 tons of goods a month:
The target of the onslaught is not the ZAPU guerillas but the Zambian Kenneth Kaunda's regime has always been the weak link among the "front line states.
Kaunda heads bureaucracy which has monopoly political transform itself into a capitalist class. To keep hold of its, economic power it WHEN Britain's last Tory ment tried to reach a deal with the white Rhodesian government, bulk of black leaders threatened to split the Commonwealth. they will be even quicker to use this threat. Margaret Thatcher and Lord Carrington have probably toned down their speeches so as to head off trouble.
The Prime Minister tactless start with her declaration that sanctions would be lifted, regardless of Commonweaith anyone else said. Thatcher has yet to learn more practitioners like James know already has through the motions.
The vast bulk Commonwealth FELO colonial ruled and exploited by a partnership of the local elite and the multinational companies. precisely the sort of state that British governments past and present want to set up in Zimbabwe. On the face of it,:
best might be expected.
Kaunda is - a spectacular have been Sweeping. It attack was an independent in South Kaunda who organised meeting between Nkomo last August. on the movement.
government break 'ranks.
towards reportedly •be more meeting between the carefully an interim Prime Minister. the by firm with been The contho.
destroyed, Rhodesian Government.
the same in price.' one-party in independent used power black clients as well.
in Zimbabwe govern- then, When Labour. the This time were harmonious.
American plan already the various interest groups.
made black lives. proclaim their loudest are experienced radical. Nigeria, Callaghan to go constitution immigration controls!
of the However, are neo- been consistently trampled make its voice heard.
example therefore needs to maintain itself in government. Self-interest predominates over principles even more than much given turnarounds, generally accompanied by public displays of was this doyen of black leaders who reopened the rail link with Rhodesia and responded to overtures of detente Africa. ANd 11 the secret lan Smith and Both the Tories and the new Muzorewa government will put the pressure on Kaunda • Already Rhodesian Foreign Minister, David Mukome, is organise and Muzorewa. The same reports indicate that Kaunda may be prepared to come to terms it Muzorewa declares himself Accounts of these negotiations mention the background role played Zambian and Rhodesian interests. This can only be multinational. When Kaunda organised the Smith-Nkomo meeting last August it was Lorrho which put him up to it.
According to an executive of a Rhodesian-based Lonrho subsidiary 'the removal of sanctions would mean a lot to us in plain material terms, at least 20 per cènt in volume and about Yet Lonrho has a far larger stake black Africa. common with most multinationals it would prefer sanctions to be lifted on terms which were acceptable to its there should be little conflict. was power, Britain and the Commonwealth over southern Africa Anglofor an all-party transition in Zimbabwe appeased all The Thatcher approach of dealing direct with the white puppet regime may have a similar end result, but it tramples on black sensibilities and The regimes •which pan-Africanism not generally the most for example, enshrines pan-Africanism in its new alongside countries which have on and abused by imperialism are not now going to be bypassed over Zimbabwe Nigeria in particular has the power to put It provides a large proportion of America's oil, for particularly potent "To recognise or is the question."
The Economist My Zimbabwe al0l... weapon at the moment. And in June it ban On British companies tendering for contracts warning of what it is capable of.
Thatcher is therefore likely to take not to recognise? That the Commonwealth quietly. She. will pressurise some of the weaker black African countries. The host country Zambia, will be first in line (see article on this page).
to lift sanctions in November will be decided by backbench pressure and manoeuvres in Africa. The Rhodesian considerable. The 15-20 per cent of trade revenue spent busting could now be pocketed, and arms would be easier to get hold of.
Yet this problems of the Muzorewa regime. It is wracked by internal dissent and the rivalry with Reverend Sithole has now broken out into open fighting. nublication of the budget last week 37 per cent on defence — shows who is really winning the war.
The struggle just a remains the decisive.
which Lusaka conference is likely to forget.
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political issues.
Third, resolutions of paper including through conference if she importance to implement can be done.
Whether Thatcher finally decides Chile combination of boost for the would be Finally, on solve the ZANU The slanderously on the ground JOHN factor Zimbabwe nobody the