Word: nkomo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...resettling by next year some 162,000 homeless families on government-purchased land. But Mugabe has said that he plans to call a general election early next year, and that he would interpret a big victory as a mandate for a one-party state. Even if he can persuade Nkomo's party to merge with his own, thereby co-opting the black opposition, he will have to convince the country's 90,000 to 100,000 whites that they still have a role to play in the country...
...troubled territory has been a problem off and on since the country achieved independence in 1980, when rivalry between the two former guerrilla confederates, Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, broke into virtual tribal warfare. Matabeleland is the homeland of the Matabele tribe and of Nkomo, and Mugabe's victory in the nationwide elections moved many of Nkomo's supporters to become rebellious. Nkomo himself was sacked from the Cabinet two years ago, after he was accused of plotting to overthrow the government. The territory is also plagued by armed bandits who kill as well as plunder. Over the past...
Zimbabwe's Home Affairs Minister, Simbi Mubako, has repeatedly charged that South Africa has been supplying the rebels with bases, weapons and funds. Mugabe also blames Nkomo for failing to condemn the violence by his supporters. But every time government troops have been sent into the province, there have been charges that the army was as bad as or worse than the dissidents. A special combat unit, the Fifth Brigade, acquired an especially notorious reputation. Last year, however, their North Korean advisers returned home, and a resident British military unit took over advanced training of the Fifth Brigade. When...
...decision brought a flood of protests. Joshua Nkomo, Mugabe's principal political rival, denounced the move as reminiscent of arbitrary arrests made under the white-dominated rule of Prime Minister Ian Smith. Four of the six men hold dual Zimbabwe-British citizenship, and last week the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed its "very great concern" over the incident...