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Peter Hawthorne has spent 29 years in Africa and has covered everything from Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s to the violent transition of Rhodesia into Zimbabwe. With Nairobi Reporter Alastair Matheson and Capetown's John Platter, the five have accumulated a total of 110 years' experience living and working in Africa...
With the collapse of colonial rule in Angola, Mozambique, and the white settler government in Rhodesia, the time for change in South Africa began running out. The constitutional reform, if passed today, will not weaken the anti-apartheid struggle for long. Already the African National Congress (ANC), a movement dedicated to the anti-apartheid struggle, has stepped up bomb attacks on South African military holdings...
...contrast, the downing of two civilian Air Rhodesia planes by rebel troops during the guerrilla war that brought black rule to Zimbabwe was nothing but coldblooded. In 1978, foot soldiers of Joshua Nkomo's Patriotic Front Army fired Soviet SA-7 missiles at a Viscount airliner as it flew from Salisbury to Kariba, 175 miles to the northwest. Of the 56 aboard, 38 died in the crash. Then, after injured passengers crawled from the wreckage, the guerrillas arrived and again opened fire, killing ten of the survivors...
...assured Nkomo of a continuing, although minor, role in Zimbabwe's politics. Still, the humiliating ordeal emphasized the opposition leader's waning influence. Mugabe and Nkomo had shared leadership of the seven-year guerrilla war that in 1980 ended white rule of the country, then known as Rhodesia. Since that time, however, Mugabe has systematically undermined his former partner's power. Earlier this year, government troops, most of them members of Mugabe's dominant Shona tribe, killed hundreds of Nkomo's Ndebele tribesmen in what was billed as a campaign against dissenters...
...Catholic rights in Northern Ireland. It is not a question, as it was in Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe], of exchanging the bullet for the ballot. They have the ballot box, but they do not even take part in the Northern Ireland Assembly. What they do not like is that the ballot box does not give them the majority, and therefore some of them resort to the bullet and those few intimidate the others. Mind you, I understand the people of Northern Ireland; once you have got terrorism it paralyzes many people who would otherwise want to help. One must not judge...