Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 4. March 19 1979
The Alternatives
The Alternatives
In the attempts of the British and Rhodesian Governments to bring about a peaceful transition from an apartheid system to one based on majority rule, it is evident that a more equitable division of land is of crucial importance. The groups who are working together to try to solve this question through the "Internal Settlement" are: The Rhodesia Party; the United African Party; the African National Council of Zimbabwe (ACNZ), and a number of Rhodesain institutions such as the African Farmers' Union of Rhodesia which mainly represents the African Farmers from the Purchase Areas.
Not suprisingly, the organisations involved in the civil war are not represented. ZANU and ZAPU argue that any redivision of land must occur along fundamentally soccialist lines. The "Internal Settlement", they consider, is fundamentally being negotiated by the whites and the richer (ie land-owning) Africans.