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in elections is a defeat for the South Africans and for Anglo-American imperialism.
The South Africans were backing Muzorewa. He got the grand total of three seats. The Anglo-American bloc was The white settlers (grossly over-represented) got the 20 seats agreed to if the Lancaster House settlement. But Mugabe won 57 seats in the hundred-seat Zimbabwe parliament - an overal!
Despite the slanderous propaganda against ZANU; despite the intimidation by the lumpen auxiliaries of Muzorewa; despite the murder attempts orchestrated by the White Rhodesian security forces, 70 per cent of Zimbabwe's blacks voted for In this way they gave their retrospective approval of the guerilla war which was the real catalyst in deleating the settler Although a major victory has been won, the war is not over. The dismantling of the settler state has yet to take place.
It is unlikely that the armed bodies of men and women who are loyal to South Africa will peacefully accept the verdict of the majority of Zimbabwe's population.
It is too soon to predict with accuracy the future course of politics and class struggle in Zimbabwe. But we must remain on lt Robert Mugabe in his own words, pages & and 9. Challerge, 328/9. Upper St, London: N1. Printed by East End (offset) Ltd. PO Box 82, London E2. • the Zimbabwe