to black majority rule.
'TRIBALISM' has long been the reflex of the Western journalist trying to explain African politics.
Sure enough, the press corps in Zimbabwe, every last one of them, has used it to explain the recent tions between the guerilla armies.
This explanation could be put to a simple test. Take all the foreign journalists in Zimbabwe. Lock them up in urban camps, four to a tiny room in windowless, breeze-block huts, or in worse conditions assembly points.
Don't pay them on time; sometimes don't pav them at all.
Give them nothing to do (the correspondents wouldn't mind that bit), and periodically lecture them on the need for discipline and Keep them in these conditions for more than 13 months. At the end, ask them give reasonable restrained opinion of 'tribalism'.
This is what the guerillas have had to put up with since the ceasefire in January last year.
Despite being told that they were the victors in the eight-year war of liberation, and despite speech thanking them sacritice, thev are treated more like prisoners of war.
by contrast the soldiers former Rhodesian army, the 'losers', pay on time. Schame The media, always on the lookout for 'ironies', thought they had found one when Prime Minister Mugabe sent in the former Rhodesian African Rifles to deal with the guerillas in Bulawayo Gwelo Yet this was the predictable outcome of the scheme for a 'national which was meant to incorporate the Rhodesians and the two guerilla armies.
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