Southern Africa Up Date
IAT.. JANUARY 16. 1332 THE CAROLINA TIKES -17
Bombing Reminds : .
Zimbabweans Of
Threats To Stability
. IANJ Pressure on Zim
babwe' ' : trincAArt
i System, which observers
as pan oi ;a. south :
African. policy of
destabilization, eased
somewhat in December.'
Later
South
., later,. came at a time Mugabe accused South
when normally the prime '.r Africa of being "the.
minister and several of master planner of all the
acts of sabotage that are;
directed against us." At'
a press conference after
was instead working at
in November home,? preparing for the
Africa aareed to .f next ' rfav's ripnartnre nn
supply 26 locomotives an official visit ; to
, ior tne system linking the "Mozambique.
, two rnnntriM nA : l 1 r-: - -
runic :
Mugabe
of
i wo cuunines. ana in :
mid-December the rail'
iiiik inrougn Niozamoi-
'que to Beira was reopen-
w wiiii mc repair oi a
bridge over the river
Pungue. The bridge had
been sabotaged ' on
November 30.
On , December 18,
however, a powerful
bomb blast in the Zim
babwean capital
Salisbury provided a
pointed reminder of the
young nation's continu
ing vulnerability. The ex
plosion tilled six and in
jured as many as 150 at
he headquarters of
'rime . Minister Robert
Mugabe's . ; Zimbabwe
m lean National union
rt central Salisbury.
The blast, the Sunday
Aail revealed a few days
of the old storage tanks
and one of three distilla
tion towers, but failed to
hit the main refinery
complex itself. . Never
theless, it is expected to
returning to Salisbury, be tne ena oi January at
the prime minister also the earliest f before the
charged that . agents -refinery is back in opera
within the - parties of . tion.. : ,
former prime Minister V According .to a
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Muzorewa "continue to, xident by .' Angolan ;ASack?Jg0
Minister . manipulation for South . twelve-rnan commando
visited victims ; Africa." , v v group : v of: , white
in November, six mercenaries who earned
out the attack were lanq
his top advisers would be
attending a biweekly par
ty organizing meeting at
the , headquarters. . On
that day, ,' however,
Prime Minister Mugabe
tured notebook with the
layout of the refinery in
English, and Afrikaans,
as well as remains of two
of the attackers.
At the time, respon
sibility for the explosion
was .' claimed for his
group by Jonas Savimbi,
who was in the United
States to seek support
for UNITA. the South
he
the attack . in ' the
hospital the next day,
but he carried on with .
the five-day visit to '
Mozambique, his first
since Zimbabwe's V in-;
dependence. , Mozambi
que, was the principal
rear base country for
ZANU's guerrilla forces
during' the war for ma
jority rule. Mugabe"
received a, warm
welcome, ' visiting,
'among other sites, a
plazaf in Maputo being
named in his honor.
Zimbabwean police
have not yet' identified
those responsible for the
blast, but suspicion has
focused on South Africa.
Speaking in Mozambi
que, on his arrival,
Rhodesian whites, in
cluding a former extreme
right-wing politcian,
were arrested . : ; in .1
Bulawayo ' after the
discovery of arms caches -.
in the city, and in early :
December a white
member of Parliament, 1
Wally Stuttaford, was j
arrest fd in connection 1
with reports of coup
plots.
Aftermath
To Angolan
Refinery Blast
IAN The November
30 commando raid on
Angola's only oil
refinery, a spokesman .
for Belgium's Petrofina
reported, damaged three
ed near Luanda from a
South African sub
marine that had set out
from Walvls Bay on
November 26. The group
had laid charges that
would have blown up the
entire complex, and, say
oil company officials,
might well , have'
devastated residential
areas of the capital as
well. However, detection
heads.
Angolan oil workers
were praised 1- by the
; government for their ef
forts to prevent" the
- spread of the conflagra
tion to stocks of toxic
' tetraethyl lead and to the
rest of the reifnery.
Minister of State Securi
ty Kundi Paihama,
however, apparently
held responsible for"
lapses in security, was
j demoted two weeks later
and replaced by Juliao
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to set off the charges ear-, MNR Base Taken
ly, in the process blowing By Mozambique Troops
up several of his own,i AN Mozambican
men. ' troops captured the prin-
. Angolan authorities ci pal base of the South
exhibited to the African-backed Mozam
diplomatic corps a cap- bique National
Resistance guerrillas on
December 7t later releas
ing to the Mozambican
and foreign press a con
siderable amount of
documentation captured
there. The site of
Garagua was north of
the Save river, in the
Mossurize Mountains,
some thirteen miles from
the Zimbabwe border
and . in easy flying
distance from the nor
thern Transvaal, where
South Africa is said to
have training camps for
the MNR. A
The majority of the
occupants of the base
escaped by helicopter,
Mozambican officials
said. But helicopter fuel,
weapons and documents
were abandoned on the
site. -
The captured
documents, Joseph
Hanlon reports from
Maputo, provide new -i
evidence of South
African support for the
"MNR. Notes . of a
meeting between 5 the
MNR?M cornmandef,
Afonso DIakama, and a
South African army col
onel named Van
Niekerk, show that the
colonel complained
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about the lack of combat
readiness and discipline
of the MNR troops.
According to notes of
the meetings, the South
African colonel also
outlined attack plans, in
cluding targeting the
road, railway and
pipeline from Beira to
Umtali. He also com
plained about, the high
cost of air drops and,
discussed plans to pro
vide supplies by sea in
stead. . In spite of the destruc
tion of the base, the
MNR poses a continuing
military threat, especial
ly to regional plans to in
crease traffic from
landlocked countries
thorugh the Mozam
bican port of Beira.
Mozambique's concern
for security was reflected
in a Cabinet reshuffle at
!the end of the year,, with
! Deputy Defejtscr.Minister
Armando Guebuza, who
' is also the national
political commissar for
the armed forces, taking
lover as governor of
Sofala Province, where
Beira is located.
Lesotho Church
Official Tells
Of Escape
NAIROBI AN
the night of September 4
around midnight, there
was a strong bang at the
kitchen door of my
house," recalled Ben
Masilo, president of the
Lesotho Christian Coun
cil and vice president of
the Lesotho Evangelical
government critic and
supporter of the opposi
tion Basotholand Con
gress Party (BCP), is
convinced his assailants
were members of the
Police Mobile Unit,
j which he also blames for
the deaths of several
Church, the largest Pro- fother prominent people
On
testant denomination in
the small southern
African nation.
Speaking in Nairobi
last month, Masilo
described the events of
the night he fled the
country and his three-year-old
grandson died
from gunshot wounds.
Masilo said the in
truders asked for him,
saying, "We have been
instructed to come and
murder you.' But I did
not want to die in front
of my children, so I
decided to escape
ithrough thelwindow."
After - v night
hiding, "A Christian
friend" helped him
escape across the border
into South Africa, where
"I was sheltered by other
Christian friends and
several embassies were
approached , for
assistance." A few days
later he and his wife flew
to Nairobi.
Masilo, an outspoken
violence escalated in
Lesotho last year as the
military arm of the BCP
stepped up a guerrilla
campaign against Prime
Minister Leabua
Jonathan. ,;.
Jonathan, who'blames'
South Africa for his
troubles, has said he may
hold an election in the
ct untry this year the
fust since the 1970 poll
he halted when the BCP
purled ahead in the
balloting.
Masilo has been
visiting the U.S. but will
retun to Nairobi to take
up a positron wifttthe All
Africa Conference of
, Churches.
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