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Zimbabwe: Drawing a Line Through the past

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Abstract

“We were trying to kill each other; that's what the war was about. What I am concerned with now is that my public statements should be believed when I say that I have drawn a line through the past.” (Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, on retaining the head of Rhodesian intelligence in charge of Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organization).

“Nothing the police are doing now is new. The police have learned all their bad habits from the Rhodesian police. The beatings, the electric shock …” (former Rhodesian police officer).

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1993

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References

page 69 note 1 Flower, K., Serving Secretly, London, 1987, 3.Google Scholar

page 69 note 2 Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Zimbabwe: Wages of War, New York, 1986, 90.Google Scholar

page 69 note 3 See the discussion by Kollapen above, 1.

page 70 note 4 At independence the Patriotic Front broke up and the two organizations contested the elections separately. ZANU(PF), as it became known, won a majority of seats and formed the government, with a minority of PF-ZAPU ministers. Most PF-ZAPU ministers were dismissed in 1982 with the worsening of political tensions. In December 1987 the two parties agreed to unite and now form the government under the name of ZANU(PF).

page 71 note 5 Flower, above, 1–3.

page 71 note 6 Quoted in Martin, D., and Johnson, P., The Struggle for Zimbabwe, Harare/London, 241.Google Scholar

page 71 note 7 Lelyveld, J., Move Your Shadow—South Africa, Black and White, New York, 1985, 213.Google Scholar

page 72 note 8 SI 487/82.

page 72 note 9 Granger v. Minister of State Security 1984 (2) 22 L.R. 92.Google Scholar

page 73 note 10 Parliamentary Debates, 16 July, 1986.

page 74 note 11 Flower, above, 261–62. Flower also reprints a secret CIO memorandum from 1974 detailing negotiations with the Portuguese and South African intelligence agencies about the formation of RENAMO (at 300–302).

page 74 note 12 See, for example, Africa Now, February 1983.

page 76 note 13 The protected village policy was also revived at a later stage in eastern Zimbabwe. From late 1988 onwards people were concentrated near main roads to protect them from attacks by RENAMO. In this instance no major human rights violations on the part of the army were reported.

page 77 note 14 Quoted in Berkeley, Bill, “One party fits all”, The New Republic, 6 March, 1989.Google Scholar