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ZIMBABWE
ZANU STRONG IN
MUGABE CABINET
AN Robert Mugabe'i
landslide victory gave him
the option of forming a gov
ernment with limited parti
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and the Cabinet he
announced last Wednesday
show concessions to prag
matism only.
Despite Mugabe's repeat
ed emphasis on the alliance
between the two wings of
the Patriotic Front guerrilla
movement, Joshua Nkomo's
party received only four of
the 24 ministries, a pro
portion . approximately
equal to its share of the
seats in the House of
Assembly (20 out of 100,
as compared with ZANU
PF's 57). Mugabe originally
wanted Nkomo to accept
the presidency, but the
ZANU-PF leader refused
that basically powerless
post.
The job Nkomo bargain
ed for, head of the Ministry
of Home Affairs, bears some
responsibility over the
police force and some do-"
mestic affairs. Regional ad
ministration, however,
which formerly controlled
the Tribal Trust Lands
through white district com
missioners, is being shifted
from Home Affairs to the
Ministry of Local Govern
ment and Housing.
The other three Cabinet
posts given to Nkomo's sup
porters are of minor impor
tance. After making the long
awaited cabinet announce
ment, Mugabe spokesman
Eddison Zvogbo denied
speculation that the unbal
anced distribution of gov
ernment jobs bodes ill for
Patriotic Front unity.
"That's nonsense," was
Zvogbo's indignant
reaction to a journalist's
speculation about the possi
bility of civil war. "We have
been partners in war, we
will b partners in peace,"
lit private ; However,
many members of Nkomo's
party have expressed re
sentment about the
"crumbs" offered them by
Mugabe. Nkomo himself is
described by close friends
as a "devastated and bitter
man," though he has public
ly called upon, all parties to
forget their past differences,
saying that "the vital thing
now is to effect the com
plete consolidation of
Zimbabwe's independence." '
Mugabe appointed two
whites to the Cabinet, but
he was careful to stress
that neither represents the
white party headed by for
. riicr Rhodesian Prime Minis
ter Ian Smith. The former
finance minister under the
government of Ian Smith
and Bishop Muzorewa will
control the Commerce and
Industry Ministry, a prag
matic concession to the
integral role of white
business even after Rhode
sia becomes Zimbabwe. But
David Smith will not offi
cially represent Ian Smith's
Rhodesia Front Party,
which controls the twenty
reserved white seats in
Parliament.
An admission of the im
portance of white-controlled
agribusiness is seen in the
appointment of the head of
the Commercial Farmer's
Union to the Ministry of
Agriculture. Dennis
Norman has no political ties
and commands the respect
of white farmers.
Mugabe campaigned on a
platform of land reform, so
he has created a separate
ministry of Lands, Resttle
ment, and Rural Develop
ment. That portfolio goes to
one of the first doctors to
attend to guerrillas in
Mozambique, Sidney
Sekeramayi, who also has
experience in organizing
refugees.
In a press conference on
March 13, Mugabe singled
out this ministry as the
vanguard of his govern
ment's plans for change.
"We must proceed with
speed to acquire land for
the resettlement of many
displaced persons. Working
jointly with the Ministry of
Agriculture, we will carry
out the program of creating
cooperatives or collectives.
This is a very urgent mat
ter." Mugabe also emphasized
the need to restructure the
civil service "with a view to
African; advancement fit: tie ....
operation- of a now-racial
system." In addition, he
declared that the country's
mass media "need a real
over-haul," and he has
asked the BBC to offer
advice in training and
management.
The ZANU-PF leader
himself will be defense
minister as well as prime
minister. Party vice presi
dent Simon Muzenda also
holds two portfolios, depu-
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ty prime minister and
foreign affairs.
Few of the new minis
ters have yet ventured poli
cy statements. But the
minister of finance, Enos
Nkala, immediately vowed
a radical realignment of the
economy. Speaking in Addis
Ababa where he was attend
ing an OAU Council of
Ministers meeting, Nkala is
quoted by Reuters as saying
"We want the rich to pay
for all the social services,"
adding, "The ordinary
people in Rhodesia must
feel better off in the next
few weeks."
The way Mugabe has
divied up the ministerial
responsibilities, however, it
may not be Nkala who will
direct Zimbabwe's econo
mic change. The key post
of minister of economic
planning and development
will go to a prominent
United Nations economist,
Bernard Chidzero, once he
winds up his duties in
Geneva.
Only two ministers have
strong military backgrounds
Labor Minister Komberai
Kangai, and Minister of
Youth, Sport and Recre
ation Teurai Nhongo. Mrs.
Nhongo, the wife of
ZANLA's top military com
mander, Rex ' Nhongo,
fought as a guerrilla before
becoming a camp command
er in Mozambique and sub
sequently a member of the
party's national executive.
At 25, the youngest mem
ber of a rather youthful
Cabinet, Mrs. Nhongo is
one of two women minis
ters. The characterization of
the Cabinet by many white
Rhodesians as "inexperi
enced and unknown" re
flects the legacy of the war.
Most of the ministers
Mugabe has chosen are
prominent members of the
ZANU central committee,
which ran the party from
Mozambique, and half hold
degrees of doctors or law
yers. Yet under the emer
gency powers legislation of
the Smith regime, their
names were not even allow
ed to be published in Rho
desia over the last fifteen
years.
Only a handful of the
new Cabinet ministers are
mention in the "who's
of African nationalist
leaders in Rhodesia.
The only top govern
mental post not yet known
is the president of Zimbab
we. The parliament must
officially meet and elect
the person who will get
that title, but sources in
the party said they have
agreed on a candidate. He is
the Reverend Canaan
Banana, a member of the
Ndebele-speaking minority
ethnic group from the south
west of the country, a fact
that adds balance to the
new government.
The new president will
also represent the internal
political element that
supported the Patriotic
Front throughout the
war. After the unsuccess
ful Geneva peace talks, Rev.
Banana broke with Bishop
Muzorewa's ANC and set up
the short-lived Popular
Movement, in support of
ZANU. ) Muzorewa's party,
with only three parliamen
tary seats, was not invited
to join Mugabe's "broadly
based coalition government
Mugabe says his govern
ment has been promised
immediate financial assis
tance from the UJS. Britain,
Sweden, the Netherlands,
and other European Eco
nomic Community (EEC)
countries, and he is pressing
for more grants than loans.
He has received nothing
from the Soviet Union, but
is hoping for more assis
tance fromboth Western and
Eastern countries.
As for the Rhodesian
"herjf", ugaoeruTout re
payment of loans for aims,
most of which he claims
came as cash from South
Africa, though tracing such
loans will be difficult.
When asked about
foreign investment oppor
tunities, Mugabe chuckled
and said, "Tell Union Car
bide they can continue
pouring in money as
they've done before."
Meanwhile, British and
South African authorities
had admitted that South
African forces were
operating in Rhodesia with
British permission but in
contravention of the Lan
caster House agreement
during the last weeks of the
election campaign. South
African Prime Minister
P.W. Botha said the troops
were sent to facilitate the
elections and that the
British were aware of the
arrangement. "Immediately
after the elections," he
explained, "I announced
that this assistance was ,
being withdrawn." '
Evidently to stay in
Rhodesia is a shipment of
Soviet T-55 tanks which
were paraded by the
Rhodesian Army in Salis
bury on election day. The
tanks reportedly came from
a shipment sent from Libya
for Uganda before the fall
of Idi Amin, and later
diverted to South Africa
and then to Rhodesia.
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