Word: muzorewa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tribe runs high. Although Nkomo's party, the Zimbabwe African People's Union, won all 15 of the Matabeleland constituencies, redistricting had eliminated five seats that ZAPU held in the previous Parliament. Elsewhere, Mugabe's victory removed from Parliament three minority opposition parties, including pre-independence Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa's United African National Council, which had held three seats...
...been expecting a miracle," said Bishop Abel Muzorewa, 59, one of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's sternest critics. After ten months of confinement at a detention center, the diminutive bishop had his prayers answered last week when, at the recommendation of a review tribunal, Mugabe agreed to his release. Muzorewa, who is head of the Zimbabwe branch of the U.S.-based United Methodist Church, leader of the United African National Council and a Member of Parliament, was Prime Minister of the country for six months before independence in April...
...bishop was jailed by Mugabe for "subversive activities" after returning from a visit to Israel and declaring that oppression in Zimbabwe was greater than it had been under white minority rule. The strongly anti-Zionist Mugabe promptly accused Muzorewa of trying to overthrow the government. The bishop is now free to resume political activities and is expected to campaign in next year's general election. But he has been warned of a condition to his freedom: no more mixing politics with religion...
...joining in the acclaim for Mugabe's speech were rival Black Leader Joshua Nkomo, white former Prime Minister Ian Smith and Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who served as Prime Minister during the transition from white to black rule and who has been detained without charges since November. Nkomo, whose guerrillas joined forces with Mugabe's during the struggle for black majority rule, was booted out of Zimbabwe's coalition Cabinet in 1982 for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. "Any coercion leading to the one-party state is digging a grave for Zimbabwe and will lead to disaster...
...Mugabe's top priorities is the purchase of underutilized land for the establishment of collective farms and redistribution to black peasants. He will probably begin, ironically, by dusting off an agricultural plan developed for the short-lived interim government headed by Bishop Abel Muzorewa. That program, which involved some 11 million acres of undeveloped or abandoned white farm land, would cost $165 million. The biracial Muzorewa regime never found financial backing for the resettlement scheme, a failing that contributed to its crushing electoral defeat last month. But Mugabe's government has already sought pledges of substantial aid from...