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...CONFUSION OF LONG voting lines and numerous delays in the recent Zimbabwean national elections has finally subsided. Robert Mugabe, who became the country's first Black Prime Minister in 1980, retained leadership of the long-time White-dominated country last week. Adding further to Mugabe's control, his party, the Zimbabwean African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) garnered well over a majority of the seats in parliament...
OBSERVERS OFTEN flippantly slap a socialist label on many third world countries which have state-run economies, do not guarantee Western-style political rights or do not accept the imperialist foreign policy of superpower nations. But, the Zimbabwean political economy today represents something much closer to state capitalism than socialism. In state capitalism the government runs the economy rather than individual firms. The corporate body is larger and more centralized, but it must still accumulate profits at the expense of depressing workers' wages, just as smaller firms...
...Those five days were the happiest of my life," his widow said. "For a short time, the apartheid disappeared. People would see you on the street there and they20A Zimbabwean guerilla officer...
However, the political feud between the two leaders continues, reinforced by the rivalry between Mugabe's 7 million-strong Shona tribe and Nkomo's 1.5 million-member Ndebele tribe. It flared again last week. More than 4,000 policemen and soldiers, including the Zimbabwean army's North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade, sealed off Matabeleland's main city, Bulawayo, and systematically flushed out so-called political agitators, criminals and dissidents. The soldiers arrested more than 1,300 people in house-to-house searches and at roadblocks...
...attempt by Mugabe to administer a final blow to Nkomo's waning political prospects failed only narrowly last week. Invoking a law that requires the Zimbabwean Parliament to declare a seat vacant if any member misses 21 consecutive sittings, Mugabe's ruling ZANU-P.F. Party called a vote to strip Nkomo of his parliamentary seat. When the embarrassed leadership realized that not enough members were present in Parliament to provide the necessary majority, it postponed the decision. In London, Nkomo warned glumly that "if I don't go back, there will...