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Original Post Date: 2001-11-30 Time: 14:34:48 Posted By: Jan
By MICHAEL HARTNACKZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe last week
declared a war for the hearts and minds of Zimbabwe’s rising generation.
Mugabe announced legislation to be put before Parliament forcing men and
women between the ages of 18 and 30 to produce certificates that they
have completed at least three months' paramilitary training in his
Zanu-PF party's National Youth Service before they can be employed in the
public or private sectors, or receive tertiary education.
At the first National Youth Service passing out parade at Mount Darwin
this month, Mugabe said: “We realised that we beat the snake [at
independence] but left out the head. What is left is to finish off the
head.”
Mugabe told the 973 trainees (151) volunteers from Zanu-PF (151) that the service
was required to instil “patriotism, discipline, entrepreneurship and
national orientation”.
“Through no fault of their own, most of our young men and women do not
understand the causes of our liberation struggle, and consequently cannot
adequately contextualise the land reform and resettlement programme … and
other political challenges facing the country.”
He said Zanu-PF had planned to introduce national service after 1980
independence, but shelved it until “the damage done by colonialism”
became apparent during the recent “Third Chimurenga” (151) his struggle to
wrest 5 000 farms totalling 8,5-million hectares from their white
owners.
The ruling party aims to establish at least one training centre in all 10
provinces, each turning out 1 000 recruits every three months (151) a total
of 40 000 a year.
At the state funeral of murdered Zanu-PF leader Cain Nkala on November
18, Mugabe alleged Britain was “sponsoring terrorist forces behind the
Movement for Democratic Change [MDC], corrupting or ruining the youths at
colleges and elsewhere, showering them with trinkets, with drink even,
with drugs, in order to get them prepared as cannon fodder in the
terrorist fight”.
MDC MP and former teacher Trudy Stevenson said Mugabe’s scheme was
impractical in view of Zimbabwe’s near-bankruptcy. Only a tiny fraction
of the 300 000 annual school leavers would be able to obtain
certificates, even if more centres complemented Border Gezi Camp at Mount
Darwin, named after a late minister notorious for organising violence in
the June 2000 parliamentary elections.
Less than 8 000 school leavers find formal-sector employment each year.
However, the scheme would enable Mugabe to ensure Zanu-PF youths were
given preference for jobs and education. Said Stevenson: “The bigger
worry is that they are training for violence for the presidential
elections. These young people are going to go out like Mao’s red guards
to kill and torture.”
In Parliament ministers have dodged questions about how the youth
services are being paid or armed.
Bases have been set up in the grounds of schools where pro-Mugabe “war
veterans” have already conducted sweeps for suspected MDC supporters
among headmasters and teaching staff. New textbooks are being issued for
courses on Zanu-PF-oriented “history”, compulsory for all pupils to age
15.
Stevenson said compulsory national service would be particularly
abhorrent to parents of girls in the 30 000-strong Asian community, but
all sectors would rebel.
“They are not interested in going to camp, wearing a uniform and learning
about the past glories of Zanu-PF. They want change (151) being part of the
modern community, to go to discos, to get a decent job and work with
computer technology.”
Nelson Chamisa, secretary for youth of the MDC, said an entire generation
of black students was feeling the malevolence of Mugabe's regime.
“Mugabe is our generational enemy. He knows he has nothing for us,” said
Chamisa. “Training these youths is a form of abuse of young people that
has happened since youth brigades were used in the 1980s Matabeleland
atrocities.”
Chamisa said with 80% of Zimbabweans unable to afford more than one meal
a day, Zanu-PF was exploiting the economic deprivation and hopelessness
among the youth.
Legal coercion was coupled with a police crackdown on tertiary students.
In Harare police fought running battles with students of the University
of Zimbabwe protesting against the November 25 murder of their colleague
Lameck Chamvura, (22) who was thrown to his death from the Harare-Mutare
train by six soldiers.
Police claimed the murder was a “private brawl with no political
connotation”. But Chamvura was half-strangled with a shoelace before
being thrown from the train, suggesting it was a reprisal for the
November 5 killing of Nkala outside Bulawayo.
Police made 11 campus arrests and blocked students from joining a human
rights march to Parliament.
In Gweru, three student leaders at Midlands University were expelled for
organising protests. Mugabe's principal mouthpiece, The Herald, was
brought into the campaign against student dissidents. “Mwana wenkoya
inyoka” (a snake’s baby is still a snake) said the paper last week,
urging that white students at Rhodes University in Grahamstown “should be
declared terrorists and enemies of the state” for taking part in a march
in solidarity with those unable to return because they cannot get foreign
currency to pay fees. The Herald falsely reported the demonstration was
against land reform.
— The Mail&Guardian, November 30, 2001.