Welcome to Zimbabwe ! That’s not the kind of message you expect to receive nowadays from that pitifully oppressed country . However , back in l987 , a booklet entitled A Guide to Zimbabwe included a card from the British travel firm of Abercrombie and Kent extending not just a welcome , but a very warm one .
Naturally, Robert Mugabe , first Prime Minister (l980 – l987 ) and in the initial year as executive president , received substantial coverage in connection with the struggle for independence. One l965 photo showed him in the Sikombela detention camp where he and other nationalist leaders were imprisoned by the white regime headed by Ian Smith in what was then known as Rhodesia.
Dealing with education , it stated that due to the segregated system which had prevailed white children between the ages of five and l5 had to attend school, but it was not compulsory for Africans. White education had been free , while black parents had to pay the equivalent of 13 weeks’ wages to keep one child in school. More than 50 percent of African children did not go to school at all . In l969 , only about 40 per cent of all Africans above the age of l6 could read their own language. The booklet listed the nation’s natural resources , extensive agricultural and animal industries and large scale irrigation from numerous dams . Mugabe and his gang of sycophants proceeded to loot the country. He even called in a brutal squad from that other obscenity , North Korean, to train killer gangs who slaughtered and hounded various groups in the community . Court orders were repeatedly disregarded . A newspaper press blown up . It is to be hoped that the Lord High Executioner soon enacts his duties and puts a tick against this deranged fiend who has reduced his country and people to such a tragic state . The proposed re-run of the presidential election in Zimbabwe is as obscene as the Burmese generals going ahead with the rigged election to continue their gangster hold on the nation which is reeling under the impact of the cyclone.
Cyclops
Naturally, Robert Mugabe , first Prime Minister (l980 – l987 ) and in the initial year as executive president , received substantial coverage in connection with the struggle for independence. One l965 photo showed him in the Sikombela detention camp where he and other nationalist leaders were imprisoned by the white regime headed by Ian Smith in what was then known as Rhodesia.
Dealing with education , it stated that due to the segregated system which had prevailed white children between the ages of five and l5 had to attend school, but it was not compulsory for Africans. White education had been free , while black parents had to pay the equivalent of 13 weeks’ wages to keep one child in school. More than 50 percent of African children did not go to school at all . In l969 , only about 40 per cent of all Africans above the age of l6 could read their own language. The booklet listed the nation’s natural resources , extensive agricultural and animal industries and large scale irrigation from numerous dams . Mugabe and his gang of sycophants proceeded to loot the country. He even called in a brutal squad from that other obscenity , North Korean, to train killer gangs who slaughtered and hounded various groups in the community . Court orders were repeatedly disregarded . A newspaper press blown up . It is to be hoped that the Lord High Executioner soon enacts his duties and puts a tick against this deranged fiend who has reduced his country and people to such a tragic state . The proposed re-run of the presidential election in Zimbabwe is as obscene as the Burmese generals going ahead with the rigged election to continue their gangster hold on the nation which is reeling under the impact of the cyclone.
Cyclops
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