Word: muzorewa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the leading black moderate, was still gamely electioneering around the country in a red-and-white-striped helicopter, accompanied by a dozen armed bodyguards. Generously financed by South African and Rhodesian corporations, Muzorewa runs by far the richest and best organized of all the major parties. Despite offers of free drinks and gifts, however, his crowds remained small and glumly suspicious of the proceedings. Muzorewa charged last week that he had attended "only one meeting where there was no evidence of intimidation...
Nkomo aides also complained of heavy intimidation-from both the Mugabe forces and some 20,000 armed "auxiliaries" loyal to Muzorewa. Nor was Mugabe himself exempt from intimidation: as the election neared, he had all but withdrawn from active campaigning following a grenade attack on his new suburban Salisbury home and a remote-controlled land-mine explosion that just missed...
...firmness had helped hold the cease-fire on course. But Soames has also been severely criticized by the nationalists and their African sympathizers for his seeming partiality toward the white Rhodesians, whom he has allowed to control the country's civil service, government apparatus, security forces and pro-Muzorewa auxiliaries...
...violence; unknown gunmen shot and killed Oliver Saunyama, a top official in Sithole's party, in front of his suburban Salisbury home. Sithole blamed Mugabe's hit men for the murder and predicted the beginning of "an era of political assassinations." That fear was apparently shared by Muzorewa and Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo; they have ordered bulletproof Mercedes-Benz sedans for their campaign appearances and travel under heavy security guard. One noteworthy fact about the violence is that all the victims are black; not one white-owned farm has been attacked since the ceasefire...
...parliamentary seats, he seems to be gaining strength as an election broker. Eager to distance himself from Mugabe's Marxist line, Nkomo seems increasingly open to an accommodation with more moderate small-party leaders, such as Sithole and James Chikerema. He could also form a postelection coalition with Muzorewa, who stands to win about 25 seats in the House but can no longer count on the undivided support of the 20-man white bloc. Mugabe, because of his support within the predominant Shona tribes, might win from 30 to 40 seats, but his leftist policies could make it difficult...