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...crowded townships outside Harare, backers of the opposition MDC report increasing intimidation by thugs from Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party. "People are being terrorized and beaten if they speak out against Mugabe," says Harare taxi driver John Makatini. The MDC has applied to contest in court 37 of last year's electoral constituency results that went to Mugabe's zanu-pf. Four of the opposition party's political heavyweights, including the leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, are also due to appear in court on charges of incitement in calling for a popular movement to oust Mugabe...
...Birds, the first novel of Lewis Nkosi, a young Black South African writer, is a story set in and expressly concerned with the current political and social conditions of South Africa. It is short, clear, direct and intensely unforgiving--a cry from the heart, dedicated to "my grandmother, Esther Makatini, who washed white people's clothes so that I could learn to write...
Recognizing that an all-out arms struggle in South Africa is the next step, the U.S. must recognize that when South Africa's white regime falls, so too will the multinationals claiming a neutral stance in a situation where there can be no neutrality. According to Mfanafuthi Makatini the international representative for the ANC, an end to apartheid will mean the socialization of all companies in South Africa...
...Makatini and others foresee an inevitable full scale arms struggle and "bloody battle" in South Africa, he said...
...Makatini said the point is moot, "The issue is not how the country is governed, but who governs the country. The only way the ANC sees is universal adult suffrage. That will bring majority rule...