Portland Observer Thursday, September 14, 1978 Page 3
The beginning of the end for white supremacy
A recent LA Times banner
headline reads: ‘Guerrillas K ill A ir
Crash Victims' and the subheading:
‘ K ill 10 After Crash in Rhodesia.* It
goes on to detail the A ir Rhodesian
Viscount plane that had left Kariba,
one o f the most popular tourist
resorts in the country, with some 52
passengers bound fo r Salisbury,
Rhodesia’ s capital. Some ten
minutes after take-off. the pilot had
radioed that he was in trouble and a
few minutes later the plane crashed.
Thirty-eight people were killed in
the crash. Apparently the guerrillas
showed up shortly after the crash
and killed ten o f the survivors. Five
managed to escape by crawling into
the bush. The cause o f the crash has
yet to be determined but there is
growing speculation that the plane
could have been the guerrillas using
the SAM-7, the surface-to-air missle.
Already a g u errillas source in
Lusaka, Zambia has been quoted as
saying the guerillas shot down the
plane because they thought it was
ferrying troops. Guerrillas have used
surface-to-air missies before to shoot
at Rhodesian planes and even though
the last time they reportedly missed
their target — a Rhodesian A ir Force
plane — they h it an hotel and
damaged it extensively.
Except for a Scottish couple, ail
forty-eight people killed were white
Rhodesians and South A fricans.
Guerrilla activity has escalated in the
Kariba area in recent months to
discouraged tourists who frequent
K ariba Dam and tyosi-a-tunya
(“ Victoria Falls") touritt resorts and
thus put a dent in Rhodesia's flound
ering tourism business. This in
cident, plus thé accom panying
publicity, w ill go a long way to cut
ting down the business even further.
This incident is just the latest in a
series o f headaches fo r rebel Ian
Smith, self-styled prime minister o f
beseiged Rhodesia and his “ biracial
interim government.” A few weeks
ago, Smith held a secret meeting in
Lusaka, Zam bia w ith Joshua
N kom o, co-leader (w ith Robert
Mugabe) o f the P a trio tic F ro n t
guerrilla alliance, Kenneth Kaunda,
» President o f Zambia and Brigadier
Joseph Garba, N igeria's Foreign
Minister. The meeting was aimed at
accomplishing what the “ interim
government” established in March
o f this year has failed to do — end
the six-year old war. This war has, in
addition to irrevocably shattering the
Rhodesian lifestyle, claimed more
than 10,000 lives (the majority being
Blacks) and incarcerated another
600,000 in concentration camps
(euphemistically called ‘ protected
villages' by the Smith regime) accord
ing to various conservative estimates.
Refugees who have fled this carnage
and are temporarily living in neigh
boring Mozambique now number
over 100,000!!
From our point o f view the Lusaka
meeting was most unfortunate. For
one thing Nkomo should not have
agreed to attend the meeting alone —
and without the knowledge or con
sent o f his partner, Robert Mugabe.
Both Mugabe and Julius Nycrerc,
President o f Tanzania are now said
to be very upset over the clandestine
meeting. Nkomo responded angrily
to Nycrcre’s condemnation o f the
secret meeting by accusing the Tan
zanian leader o f meddling in the in
ternal affairs o f Zimbabwe. Kaunda
is to blame to o , not o n ly fo r
arranging the secret meeting but also
for a clampdown on reports about
the meeting.
Even though the meeting took
place on August 14th, it is only over
the past week that the news has
fin a lly come to lig h t. A fte r
N dabaningi S ithole, one o f the
“ leaders” o f the internal “ govern
ment” had leaked the news. Smith,
Kaunda and Nkomo were separately
interviewed and all three denied that
a meeting had taken place. However,
after rumors continued to persist,
Nkomo finally admitted that he had
met Sm ith in Lusaka, Zam bia.
Smith, has for a long time now, been
trying to break up the Patriotic Front
and the cooperation o f the Front-line
states (Zambia, Botswana, Angola,
M ozambique and Tanzania) and,
thanks to Kaunda, he may have suc
ceeded. A veteran p o litic ia n like
Nkomo ought to have been aware of
this. This is also the second time that
Nkom o has held a secret meeting
with Smith, excluding Mugabe in the
process. Earlier this year he met with
Jeremiah Chirau, Smith’ s most loyal
partner in the internal government,
in London and later tried to deny it.
A t the Lusaka meeting the claims
that Smith offered him the chair
manship o f the interim government’s
Executive Council and he told him
(Smith) that he would not make a
deal when his partner, Mugabe, was
not present. Smith, however, says he
never made the offer, he was merely
making exploratory moves to see if
there was a basis for negotiations —
the all-parties conference. Inciden
tally, all three Black members o f the
so-called Executive C o u n cil are
vehemently opposed to the proposed
conference. So, chances are i f
Nkomo comes in exit Muzorewa and
Sithole.
On the war front, a few more in
teresting revelations: it has recently
come to lig h t that some o f
Rhodesia's senior m ilitary officials
have diverted more than R$1 m illion
in funds earmarked for m ilitary pur
chases in to Swiss Bank accounts.
Even though the news was sup-
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S e p te m b e r 16.
T im e ly v a lu e *
by N. Fungai Kumbula
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pressed in Rhodesia's censored press,
South African papers were not so
"scrupulous.” W ith the economy
straitjacketed as it is, Sim. is a lot of
dough. Moreover, such action by the
security chiefs, who arc supposed to
be very knowledgeable, does not in
spire too much confidence in the
dem oralized and already badly
frightened white population.
Consequently, last m onth there
was a net loss o f white immigrants o f
1,111 the largest single month figure
ever. Previously, they would take out
o f the country as much money as
they wanted, then to stem the tide, it
was cut down to R$4,000. Now it has
been further cut down to R$ 1,400.
T o people used, through the ex
ploitation o f Blacks, to the highest
standard o f living in the world, that
is nowhere near enough money to get
started elsewhere. Another problem
is where to go. They have been run
ning from m ajority rule all the way
from Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania,
etc. The only place left is South
Africa and South A frica, too, is a
volcano on the verge o f eruption.
Maybe the Indian Ocean?
The Zimbabwe situation has been
described as “ flu id ” . Political fo r
tunes are won and lost almost over
night. The only thing I can be ab
solutely sure o f is that this is the start
o f the beginning o f the end for white
supremacy in this garden o f Africa.
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one o f M ultnom ah Counties top
politicians. I asked him regarding
Mrs. Gladys McCoy that to forget
what she looks like or where she
came from what did he think about
her. He said he thought she was a
very intelligent person, and an ex
cellent person to get her jo b well
done.
According to your articles Mrs.
M cCoy has endorsed Ms. Evie
Crowell. I f she did I think she made
a wise choice. Ms. Crowell was also
interviewed by our Political Action
Committee. She certainly appeared
to be an intelligent person, well ver
sed in the issues o f the day. 1 admired
her straightforward and to the point
answers. Her resume that she present
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had a bachelors degree from Port
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Washington. At that time she was a
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w orking w ith various com m unity
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W ith my experience w ith our
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w orld 1 th in k Ms. Evie C row ell
w ould be an excellent choice to
replace Mrs. Gladys McCoy when
her term is up at the Portland School
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