Party settlement elections democratic. the Internal dark the Terrorists Denis fact the habitually brush off accusations that the "internal years in jail.
are unsay that the arrangements may not 1965. he loo wonderful, but they're good enough for Africans - the which is racism. Or they simply claim that the elections are democratic — which ia lie.
*All black parties opposed to settlement" are banned. The regime argues that Have placed themselves outside the law. In never had much hoice. ZAPU was hanned un 19g both valy a year after both only a year after *All newspapers are cen sored and any black paper that is critical of the regime is closed down. In 1975 the authorities the diated t5a copienday Times 'in the interests of public *Many works of literature ure regarded as undestrable or prohibited, including the Doris Lessing.
Baldwin, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
*Freedom of speech does not exist for Africans. During the British Pearce Comatisdon in 1972 a group of young boys wus even arrested for wearing T-shirts with the We sas No to le proposal, Anyone convicted of having 'subversive material"
MAKE ZIMBABWE AN ISSUE statement is liable to up to five *The country has been under This suspends constitutional rights, ullowing regirae, MENUE things, to detain without trial, Implement forced labour, move the population, create curfew and free-fire zones, contisente and livestock and destroy property and sege*There is no electoral roll. Voling is based on a 7969 censes. Electoral frand was sapposedly avoided by dipping each voter's hand in invisible paint once they had been to the polling station!
*Every white voter has had the chance to go to the polls twice — the first time to elect a separate group of 20 white MPs, the second to vote on the remaining No seats. Eight of those are also reserved for There 270.000 whites in Zimbabwe and 5.8 million blacks.
*Transition to majority rule gunrunteed in the internal settlement', All the docament says is that such a transition may take place in at least" ten years 'If a government commission recommends it.
*Section A, Cluuse 2 of the agreement is a gearantee of the rights of private property which will effectively protect ngainst nationalisations and land reproposals such as the AngleAmerican plan. At the moment land is divided roughly half and half between black and white.
*Again like all the other settlement plans, the 'internal settlement' guarantees the continuity of the state apparates. The white rucist army, police, and judiciary will remain in office. Thus black-led government will remain the prisoner of the white regime.
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