Positive Movement newsletter from 1974

(7Ф&но- CONTROL A MAN BY CONTROLLING HIS SELF-PFRCEPTIONS. IF HE THINKS LITTLE OF HIMSELF AND HIS CULTURE, HE CAN BE TAUGHT TO FOLLOW; BUT IF HE THINKS MUCH OF HIMSELF AND HIS CULTURE, HE WILL WANT TO LEAD! _ J VOL 1 NO.fe TOWSON Sl.UNIV. BLACK STUDENT UNION PUBLICATION APR. 14. 1979 PRIVATE ARMIES TERRORIZE ZIMBABWEAN PEOPLE "The querrillas demand food from the people on a roster basis and failure to produce it means certain death. They demand meat and meat only and the people have now run out of chickens and goats and very soon will be forced to slaughter cattle. Most girls in the area are pregnant as a result of being raped. This description comes not from the Smith regime's propaganda machine bent on discrediting Patriotic Front freedom fighters, but from a church source. It is testimony given to the Catholic Commission for Peace and Justice by witness in the Kembudzia district of Rhodesia, and it refers to the private armies of Bishop Ndabaningi Sithowe — also referred to by some as Sithole — "guerrillas." The men who make up this army are apparently on rampage in at least nine districts of the country. Many of these areas are so — called frozen or free zones, which are exempt from martial law and are controlled by militias recruited by Sithole' s and Bishop Muzorewa's parties. Details of the operations of these private armies — Sithole' s in particular are disclosed in a Catholic Commission for Peace and Justice in Rhodesia document recently supplied to Southern Africa. Shortly after the signing of the internal settlement a year ago, a local journalist reported that Sithole' s "ZANU" party and Muzorewa's United African National Council (TJANC) were busy recruiting young men who could be passed off as "returning guerrillas" taking advantage of the "safe return" policy. Recruit¬ ment has since increased to a point where both parties have substantial militias although no estimates of actual numbers have been given. Statements by UANC and "ZANU" (Sithole) spokespeople are typically contradictory. Con ' t