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Portland Observer
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by Robin Wright
SALISBURY, RHODESIA IPNSI
A sedate bar on Salisbury's main avenue
suddenly had taken on a festive air with
bright stickers added to the dark wood
walls, tables, bar stools and cash regis
ter.
But themlogans on the stickers were
far from festive:
n
"Speak now and we'll know no peace ,
a turquoise sticker warned. “Think »bout
national security. Don't talk about it.
“Your tongue could pull a trigger . a
chartreuse sticker declared.
Among the others:
.
"Women's lib is one thing, women s
lip another."
"What you've just said may blow up a
truck."
“Is your conversation killing?
“An open mouth makes a big target.
Even the public lavatory had its own
version:
.
“Are you having a security leak”
The slogan stickers are part of a mas
sive propaganda campaign launched here
at the beginning of the year to booet
morale and counter the ominous warn
ings from abroad that Rhodesia's ,’ hlte
population must now make way for the
majority Black population.
The campaign mounted after the col
lapse of efforts at peaceful settlement
between Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian
Smith and Black nationalist leader Josh
us Nkomo in March and the subsequent
escalation of guerrilla attacks from across
the 800 mile border shared with Mozam
enough to do or see. There are no massa
cres and bloodbaths. there are no maasive
terrorist force build-ups. there is no panic
or hysteria, and there are no queues of
people leaving the country.
“We do not deny that Rhodesians are
going through difficult times - difficult
but not drastic, and compared with most
countries in the world today Rhodesians
have much to be thankful for.
Grisly Pictures
Perhaps the single most effective piece
of propaganda is the recently re-issued
pamphlet "Anatomy of Terror", full of
grisly pictures of innocent Africans and
cattle mutilated by the "terrs" - the
Rhodesian nickname for the estimated
12.000 terrorists based in neighboring
Mozambique.
The booklet explains in the introduc
tion: "Outright torture has long been a
weapon of the Communist-trained thugs
who. for the past fifteen years, have been
trying to force their philosophies on an
unwilling and peace loving, indigenous
bique.
"Outsiders are overdramatizing Rhod
esia's problems." a senior government
official complained. "We are trying to
clarify the situation by providing our
people with the facta so there won't be
unnecessary alarm."
But the campaign is not limited to the
8.3 million Rhodesian population. One of
the latest additions is a airletter, printed
by the government, for distribution to
relatives and friends abroad. Authorities
claim over 16,000 have been sent over
seas.
“No doubt you are worried about the
situation in Rhodesia." an excerpt reads,
“particularly in view of all the sensational
headlines and horrific articles which ap
pear in the press . . .
“Scores of journalists from all over the
world have descended upon Rhodesia and
days p
pointing
out that the whites - out
day»
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numbered 22 to one by Blacks - have
something to fight for.
Maintaining one of the highest stan
dards of living in the world, Rhodesian
whites have an average annual income of
18.000 while costa are comparatively low
despite United Nations sanctions. Dorn
antic help and industrial or farm labor are
cheap at an average of 640 a month, and
taxes are low at five per cent.
The Land Tenure Act divides land into
twtf parts: one-half for the five per cent
oppressed community."
A new addition to the growing govern
ment campaign - printed on cheap pulp
due to the paper shortage - is “Bloody
Love", which tells how an African woman
was forced by guerrillas to cook and eat
flesh cut from her husband's face.
The author. V. W. Rijnberk. condemns
the World Council of Churches -- a “vile
body" -- for supporting the liberation war
in Rhodesia and for the Council's state
ment that "liberation fighters m southern
Africa are motivated by love, not hate.”
“Love indeed", he writes angrily. “A
love that at gunpoint forces a wife to eat
her husand's flesh. Satanic love - sadistic
love - bloody love.”
United Whites
The impact of this campaign has been
immense. The 280.000 whites are now
closer than at any time since Prime Min
uter Smith declared unilateral indepen
dence on November 11, 1985.
The white minority government is
spending a good deal of its time these
The Portland Chapter of the National
Association for Community Development
will sponsor its third consumer confer
ence at the Ramada Inn on July 14th.
1978. Thé conference will center around
food purchasing and nutrition, as regard
ed by those attending the first two con
ferences held earlier this year.
Among the featured speakers is Mrs.
always support our African
their »trugfie against apartheid
and
colonial ism.
On November 11th. 1975. when we
proclaimed our independence to the
world, a constitution was declared for the
new republic, and was expanded by
Decree Law No. 1. approved in February
by the ruling Council of the Revolution.
The new decree provides for broad, effec
tive participation of the masses in the
exercise of political power through the
consolidation, expansion and develop,
ment of the organizational forms of
peoples power. We have a pyramid
shaped structure, with each level electing
the next one. In the rural arena the
precess starts with Village Peoples
Committee.
The various provision» of the u cree
U w are aimed at Institutionalizing on a
country wide basis practices developed
during our 16-year armed struggle.
Frantz Fanon warned that the failure
to create a comprehensive program to
enable the people to advance once pou
cal independence was won would lead t e a
new type of domination, economic, by
fall into thia trap.
Our most urgent task remains the d e
fense of our territory, the defense of our
revolution. But we have embarked on
issues and answers of economic develop
ment, education, health, social services,
politicization programs. We are already
in the proce»» of planning agricultural
development, the baaia of our national
economy, as well as in the fields of indus
try and commerce.
Our objective of people's democracy
spings from the will of our people to
establish people’s power throughout the
country. I t is essential that the workers
be represented on all decision-making
bodies that administer the state. Soon we
will have created the conditions where by
our workers and peasants can participate
most effectively in the running of the
country.
Let me make It dear that we are not
against private business or investment.
Under our new law, the People's Republic
“shall recognize, protect and guarantee
prive activities and property, even those
of foreigners, so long as they are useful to
the country's economy and to the inter
ests of the Angolan people."
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The conference will begin with regis
tration at 8:00 a.m. Subjects explored by
workshops are: Budgeting and Dollar
Power, the Puzzle for the Prescription
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The defense budget has double over
the past five years and businesses are
being drained of manpower to beef up the
Rhodesian armed force». Meanwhile, the
government claims that only 3.000 Blacks
have left the country, although the UN
Commission on Refugees in Mozambique
says it is providing funds for 14,500 who
have left Rhodesia since Mozambique be
came independent a year ago.
Confined to their isolated country, the
Rhodesian whites have had little oppor
tunity to see how the role of white set
tlers on the continent has been altered
over the past fifteen years. Even the
bitter Angolan civil war failed to rouse
their concern, a survey of whites found
that the vast majority viewed it as just
another African punch-up”.
A leading South African newspaper
editor summed up the Rhodesian situa
tion: "Whites who have deluded them
selves for years are marvelously equip
ped to delude each other . . . The result is
an endless flow of contradictions and du
_in m ini
the cases the
certain interests.
But rases
in most
new bourgeoisie in newly independent
African and Asian states, the intellect
uals and other strata of the population
could not grasp this reality. I t saw no
reason why it could not create a modern
capitalist state once the Europeans were
gone. In Angola we are determined not to
Roberts Baylor, who is Assistant Direc
tor of Consumer Protection, Legal Ser
vices Division Office of ti s Comptroller
of Currency is working in D.C., who will
speak on the Equal Credit opportunity
Act, and Ms Mercedes Bates, Vice Presi
dent Consumer Center, General Mills,
and who will speak on “Your Incredible
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bious claims.
“On the eve of an inevitable takeover
by Blacks, propaganda seems more im
portant than truth, and morale is better
served by boasts and evaaions than real
F eatu rin g U n iro y a l Tires,
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Recaps, & T ire Service
The w ill o f »he p e o p le o f A n g o la
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h n e i la Angola...A revolution i
exported. W e are | —
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it thov respect our basic orientation
with the sole exception of imperialist and
racist South Africa, against whom wo Iwll
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white population and one-half for the 96
per cent Black population. Eleven times
more is spent for the education of a white
child than for the average Black. And
Parliment is controlled by whites with a
50 to 16 ratio -• with half the Black
government appointed.
The good life, reinforced by govern
ment propaganda, has led many Rhode
sians to shrug off the tell-tale signs of
trouble: Last year over 10,000 whites left
the country for good. The black market
has increased dramatically as whites try
to get their savings out to safer terrain.
And there are few takers on new houses
population.
.
"If. as they say, the people are on their
side, why is it necessary for them to
resort to such barbarism in order to con
vince them? Perhaps this publication will
serve to prove the calibre of men who
masquerade as liberators of a so-called
Thursday, July 8th, 1976
The new law also refers to a Resistance
Political Economy—predicted on the fact
that with hostile neighbors, all public
activities must gravitate around resist
ance to potential invasion. We plan to
build an economy with three basic sectors:
state economic enterprises, cooperative
enterprises and private enterprises.
We are at present in the process of
negotiating new contracts with establish
ed industrial concerns, such as Gulf Oil.
for our oil, diamonds, gold, copper, etc.
Our new contracts seek to put first the
interests of the Angolan people, so that
never more shall they or their resources
be exploited, so that they can enjoy fully
the benefits of their inheritance.
Not only because of the centuries of
exploitation, but also because of the mas
sive efforts to strangle our nation—right
at birth, we had to start in ruins and
chaos. But because we had mobilized the
people, because they were with us. be
cause we had never betrayed them, this
gigantic task of economic, social, admin
istrative and national reconstruction is
slowly getting under way. From the
basics, like building bridges, schools,
hospitals, ldw-cost housing, office build
ings to more ambitious projects like sett
ing up training institutes, universities,
industrial and agricultural councils, un
dertaking a widespread literacy cam
paign. producing enough food to feed our
people and for e x p o rt-a ll these problems
and projects are being tackled wih devo
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tion and dedication.
We are ready to shoulder our responsi
bilities, to bear our burdens, and to enjoy
the fruits of our labor. We are ready to
take our rightful place in the internation
al community, in the global brotherhood
of man. Thus, with full respect for. and
commitment to. the Charter of the United
Nations, of the Organization of African
Unity, of other international bodies and
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we declare that we, while working for the
social progress and development of the
Angolan people, are mindful of our larger
responsibilities, too, such as our soon to
be fellow members of the United Nations,
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Third World comrades, and finally to the
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and outs, of the fact that man's destiny is
irrevocably interlinked.
In ending, I wish to quote the famous
son of African soil, Amilcar Cabral; we
Angolans echo his words:
In Africa we are for the complete liber
ation of the African continent from the
colonial yoke, for wo know that colonial
ism Is an Instrument of Imperialism....In
Africa we are for African unity, .in favor
of the African peoples...In Africa we a rt
for an African policy which seeks to de
fend first and foremost the Interests of
the African peoples, of each African conn
try, but also for a policy which does not
at any time, forget the Interests of the
world, of all humanity. We are for a.policy
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