given to the issue. leaders are falling out among themselves. NDABANINGI Sithole's de- 1 indisputable sanciations of the 'internal settlement elections have come they have Still opened ap serious problems for the Smith Sithole leads the smallest of the black parties to support the Internal settlement with Smith march law seur. in Ene the elections he, like all the party took All black hemselves solely by their apport for the settlement and fetinguished themselves from candidates Sithole, whose party won a measly 12 per cent of the vote, sow gleges eleclord mal. practice. As we have repeatedly argned these arguments are surprises over his attitude to the racist regime there. The have indicated that they now want to recognise the lan Smith regime. Whether they will be able to get away with that is something we will discuss in future issues. This week we look at how the internal settlement"
electoral roil, 28 per cent of the seats hised off to the whites in 30711L7. and mos oi me country under martial law.
Of course, for Sithole to come out with this now is just sour grapes. But it still makes the election more difficult to sell to world opinion and, most importantly, it could create a April constitutional obstacle to the asembly ever The result has to be confirmed by the Executive Council appointed after last March's Internal settlement, which hy consensus and of which Sithole шлетст gereman cam. who takes a similur line, are BESEECEN The sight of the internal settlement leaders falling out among themselvesis predictable and four fighting the white regime as a whole. But the power struggle al the top is only part of'a more bitter rivalry internal settlement forces — in which the Zimbubwean people Private armies Sithole Muzorewa, the victor in last month's clection, have been trained in Sudan and Libya, armed under the forebearance of the white authorities, and now exercise a 'nationwide Hitlerite terror' (Muzorewa's phrase].
The increase in terrorism and political killing shows the sort of dead-end to which right-wing polities of collaboration lead. Even Illustrated Life Rhodesia commented:
the tribespeople Viewer described the auxiiries being as bullies who used coercion in trying to drum men and women into the purty ranks.
The Catholie for Justice and Peace reports by that Sithole's purticulurly brutal, beating up or kilne covenans tor reTung to buy party cardsReports of rape are legion: the whole morality of the area has been destroyed, not a encouraging for those the loyal to - DINGER Abel Uganda, Zaire, the interCommision forces are people.
present conditions. them they are shot by Sithole's One African even told the Commission: "Sithole's Forces are symputhisers and [they] are so brutal that we would prefer to
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LORD CARRINGTON, the new Foreign Secretary, is a director of Rio Tinto Zine, one of the top profit-makers in Zimbabwe. So there will be few
appointment of this former Guards officer and top troubleshooter is itself an indication of the priority Tory statements throughout the election campaign