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Last week Mugabe and Nkomo agreed to merge their factions to form a single- party Marxist-Leninist state. "We are one," said Mugabe. The Prime Minister will assume leadership of the new party, which will bear the name of his Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front). Nkomo is likely to become one of his two deputies...
...Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe joined hands in 1980 to fight a guerrilla war against their country's white-minority government. But soon after Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, the longtime rivals parted acrimoniously. Mugabe ruled the country as Prime Minister with the support of his ethnic group, the Shona, who make up about 80% of the population. Nkomo headed the main opposition party, composed of the Ndebele people. He was accused by the government of being behind Ndebele freedom fighters in the area of southwestern Zimbabwe known as Matabeleland. Since 1982 the rebels and the Shonas have waged a war that...
...followers all point to his successful conclusion of his negotiating effort to create a democratic Zimbabwe as his greatest accomplishment. The peer's effort came to fruition in late 1979, only after he convinced Thatcher to reverse her public position that the rebellion led by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo was mere terrorism. The settlement--which even Carrington and many members of his negotiating team had believed was impossible, they later said--perhaps could have been achieved only by someone with the unflagging pragmatism and clearheadedness of Carrington, who has demonstrated time and again the willingness to abandon political theory...
Mugabe's chief rival, Joshua Nkomo, fared well only in Matabeleland, the western homeland of his Ndebele tribe, where resentment of Mugabe's predominant Shona 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...
...history demonstrates, Marxist revolutions certainly produce totalitarian one-party dictatorships. Liberals who are sanguine about the consequences of Marxits revolutions should look at the human right relation of the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe (where Mugabe's Morth Korean-trained Fifth Brigade has killed several thousand Ndebele supporters of Nkomo before they blithely condemn South Africans Black to a similar fate...