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...Pretoria's support for a coup attempt against Mugabe. The South Africans, charged Mugabe, refused Nkomo's request at both meetings. The Prime Minister also maintained that Nkomo had met with "other parties" to plan a strategy to overthrow his government. Among them: Member of Parliament Wally Stuttaford, 64, who has been detained by the Mugabe government since December on suspicion of having approached ZAPU to plot a joint coup attempt...
Whites have also been angered and alarmed by some of the Prime Minister's recent actions. Invoking the emergency powers once used against insurgent blacks, Mugabe has jailed Wally Stuttaford, 64, a grandfatherly Member of Parliament, on suspicion of having plotted a coup against the government. A 24-year-old Dutch-born auto mechanic was detained in Salisbury and later deported simply for drawing mustaches and horns on posters of Mugabe and Zimbabwe's President, the Reverend Canaan Banana. In addition, whites complain that groups of tourists have been roughed up by soldiers-in one instance, for stumbling...
...copies in the U. S., 50,000 in England, has been a best-seller in South Africa. But now no Cape Town bookseller has a copy. After it had been damned as an insult to Boer heroes, "filthy," discourteous, inaccurate, misleading to foreign readers, Minister of the Interior Stuttaford banned the book with a ruling that stopped importation of new copies. Claiming that the ban was political, with no legal excuse given, the English publishers announced: "The Government feared the loss in the forthcoming elections of a number of Dutch votes. . . ." Said Minister Stuttaford: "Personally I would recommend the book...
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