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...real reason for reducing Nkomo's influence was that his Patriotic Front Party, with its roots in the minority Ndebele tribal region, constituted a permanent menace to the power of Mugabe's Shona-dominated Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). Armed supporters of the two parties have clashed violently in recent months. Their continuing rivalry threatens the crucial integration of the two guerrilla armies with the former Rhodesian security forces...
...over the shabby treatment his party has received since its electoral defeat. Only three of 24 Cabinet posts and one of 20 available Senate seats were given to Nkomo men. Party rivalries are further exacerbated by the traditional tribal enmity between Nkomo's Ndebele and Mugabe's Shona supporters. Says Willie Musarurwa, Nkomo's longtime press spokesman: "What the Prime Minister must do is make our people feel that they belong. People who have played a very strong role are being left out. The most important thing is unity...
Tribal factors had much to do with his victory. Mugabe, like Muzorewa, is a member of the dominant Shona, who make up about 80% of the black population. But Muzorewa was so discredited by his association with the whites and his failure to deliver on campaign promises that most of the Shonas voted for Mugabe. Another reason for his success: Mugabe's guerrillas did the brunt of the fighting that, in the eyes of most Africans, forced the whites to accept majority rule...
...differences." Then Steele, with some strain showing in his face, told the new recruits: "Mugabe is our leader now. We are all fighting for one government." Behind him a ZANLA man sang the opening bars of the guerrillas' Zimbabwe national anthem and the blacks broke into a traditional Shona dance of celebration...
...southwestern town of Bulawayo lies the tomb of Cecil Rhodes, the English diamond millionaire who took the white man's burden to southern Africa and founded the colony that bore his name. Rhodes, even with his ambitious vision, could never have contemplated a black-ruled Rhodesia with a Shona tribesman at its head. Yet the two leaders had at least one thing in common: each had an almost mystical belief that his personal destiny was intertwined with that of this hauntingly beautiful country. As Robert Mugabe took on the burden of governing and rebuilding that war-torn land last...