that capital punishment is a happy event. I would be happier if it were abolished.
WE HAVE had a great deal of help from China, Rumania and Yugoslavia. Since visit to Vietnam we have also had good relations with Hanoi.
We have never considered the USSR enemy.
ZAPU the Soviet Union has helped the people of Zimbabwe. would like more assistance from the Soviet Union.
August 1978 BUT China has always said they will attach no strings to the aid they give US. They are not going to use that military aid as a weapon to orientate us in the direction of their own views.
The fact that we get help China doesn't make us married to China.
WE WANT to build a solidarity of sacialist around struggle. My visit to Cuba was the first that a leader of ZANU has paid that country and President Castro very responsive.
As our solidarity.
Trom norea, eventual revolutions Germar Korea, helping Mozambique, But we Bissau, Ethiopia.
even experience? the Begins, the Claus.
September 1979 On the party:
our we found the endeavours continue hope to find ourselves in the orbit of all socialist countries, with the Soviet Union and China included in this THE Bolshevik Revolution's success and the subsequent creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as the parent socialist state meant the success of socialist China, Hungary, the Republic, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cuba and here in Africa in Angola, Guinea Congo Republic and now in Who would have imagined in 1917 Inal socialist revolution would one day be Africa's Pinochets, Somozas, Vorsters and Ian Smiths take note. The workers and the peasants of uniting; they have nothing to lose but their imperialist WHILST we should recognise the role tid status given to us by party, there should constantly exist denominator, the Unity is in fact more than mere harmony. It is an active bond of aspirants who share in common given political beliefs Unity is integrative of revolutionary forces in the direction of set goals. June 1977 On the future: WE HAVE a glorious history as consistent and revolutionaries.
We cannot besmirch that history by accepting half-measures as effective solution which, under false pretences, speaks of a majority rule when in effect they operate in the interests of a bigoted minority, thus perpetuating minority rule.
committed all kinds of very serious cutties.
Zambia, in Botswana, all these put people if by the time we take over he THE ONE thing we cannot change or modify vis-a-vis South Africa is our commitment to the liberation of the But in respect of our ow ollateral relations with South Africa incannot be expected that overnight we will We will therefore, in that respect PEOPLE of Zimbabwe — workers, wcasallls industrialists, intellectuals, civil servants, students, men, this is the moment for unity.
The Republic of Zimbabwe must unflinchingly pursue an anti-racist policy. We will ensure that majority rule never becomes maiontv tvrannv Both must be smashed Zimbabweans are to live in true freedom in their own country. January 1980 principled an for the moment.
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