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SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA REPORT

No. 2817

CONTENTS

INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

Analysis of African Socialism Presented

(Herbert Schroeder; AFRICA-POST, May. 83) 1

CAMEROON

GABON

Reorganization of Ministries Decreed

. (CAMEROON TRIBUNE, 13 Apr 83) 7

Briefs

Geographical Updating Project 11

Minister Makes Official Visit to Uruguay

(L'UNION, 21-23 May 83) 12

Makaya Notes Excess of Civil Servants in Minis tries

(Makaya; L'UNION, 25 May 83) 13

GHANA

Eyewitness Describes 19 June Attack on Broadcast House

(Accra Domestic Service, 20 Jun 83) 14

Briefs

Fishing Vessels Siezed

LESOTHO

Spokesman Reacts to Opposition Figure's Remarks

(Maseru Domestic Service, 21 Jun 83) 18

RSA Intent To Stifle LLA Action Questioned

(Maseru Domestic Service, 21 Jun 83) 19

-a - [III - NE & A - 120]
Briefs

USSR, PRC Ties 20

Jonathan Tour 20

NIGER

Premier Takes Information-Gathering Trip to Maradi

(LE SAHEL, 2 Jun 83) 21

SENEGAL

Briefs

1983-1984 Budget Adopted 23

SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Squatters Re turn to. Vacant KTC Camp

(SAPA, 20 Jun 83, Umtata Capital Radio, 20 Jun 83) 24

Squatters Return

Squatter Settlement Demolished

Bishop Tutu Addresses SACC National Council

(Greg Smith, SAPA, 21 Jun 83) 26

Bishop Tutu at Council

U.S. RSA Policy Scored

Changes Feared

Conditions for Foreign Investors

Government Against SACC

Terrorism From Both Right, Left Condemned

(Editorial; BEELD, 15 Jun 83) 30

Briefs

Black Communities Resettlement 31

SWAZILAND

Ex-Prime Minister Reportedly Hiding in Pretoria

(SOWETAN, 30 May 83) 32

TANZANIA

Four 'Major Goals' of 1983/84 Budget Set Forth

(SUNDAY NEWS, 5 Jun 83, DAILY NEWS, 3 Jun 83) 35!

Breakdown of Budget

Zanzibar's 1983/84 Budget, by Attilio Tagalile

- b -
TRC To Take Over Nyasa Shipping From TACOSHILI

(DAILY NEWS, 1 Jun 83) 38

Bank Sets New Exchange Rates With Major Currencies

(DAILY NEWS, 6 Jim 83) 39

Economic, Technical Protocol With Mas cow Signed

(DAILY NEWS, 6 Jun 83) 40

Tazara Asks International Donors To Fund Revitalization

Program

(Mkumbwa Ally; DAILY NEWS, 2 Jun 83) 41

Minister Comments on Tazara Fiscal 1983/84 Budget

(Charles Kizigha; DAILY NEWS, 26 May 83) 42

Vijana Secretary Says Preparations for Tripoli Festival

Going Well

(DAILY NEWS, 31 May 83) 43

Market Prices for Most Grains Rise; Food Shortages Occur

(DAILY NEWS, 27 May 83) 44

Government To Probe Forging of Tanzanian Passports in

Pakistan

(Charles Kizigha; DAILY NEWS, 1 Jun 73) 46

Briefs

Culture, Education Agreement With FRG 47

Regional Trading Companies Dissolved 47

TIPER Fuel Production Resuming 47

ZAMBIA

More Than One Hundred Zairians Rounded Up for Deportation

(TIMES OF ZAMBIA, 19 May 83) 48

TDAU 'Successful' in Making Prototype Processing Machinery

(TIMES OF ZAMBIA, 26 May 83) 49

Minister Opens Tazara Council of Ministers Meeting in

Lusaka

(TIMES OF ZAMBIA, 25 May 83) 50

Bank of Zambia Releases December 1982 Quarterly Financial

Review

(TIMES OF ZAMBIA, 23 May 83) 51

Paris Club Sets Conditions for Nation's Debt Rescheduling

(TIMES OF ZAMBIA, 24 May 83) 52

- c -
Rehabilitation Work on Zambia Railway Begins

(TIMES OF ZAMBIA, 19 May 83) 54

CCM Says Rural Influx to Cities Contributes to Food

Shortages

(TIMES OF ZAMBIA, 23 May 83) 55

Dispute With Italian Government Delays Road Project

(SUNDAY TIMES, 22 May 83) 56

IDA Loan for Water Supply Services in Six Districts

(DAILY MAIL, 17 May 83) 57

Briefs

Africaire Aid 58

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INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN SOCIALISM PRESENTED

Bonn AFRICA-POST in German May 83 pp 28-31

[Article by Herbert Schroeder: "African Socialism"]

[Text] While searching for their own independent

economic system, most Africans—unaware of being born

socialists—found a socialism without dogma. The West

adjusted to it more easily than did the Marxist East.

In retrospect one can easily see why the expression "African socialism" caused

surprise and confusion among Africa's old "capitalist" partners as well as its

new communist friends when it first appeared on the scene.

Until most of the countries gained independence, the African economy consisted

more or less of two fairly different economic "systems": the native

subsistence agriculture of the large majority of the population which had few

contacts with the monetary and market system and a superimposed colonial

economy which obeyed its own laws and went its own ways.

Search for a New Economic System

The new African states realized very quickly that political independence alone

was not enough but that they also needed an economic and social foundation,

which led to their search for an economic system that would be suitable for the

new Africa.

Considering the circumstances of the African countries and their inhabitants,

such a system had to do justice to the following demands:

—In production: a guarantee of quick economic progress with a diversified

economy and the establishment of new industries as well as general contacts

with the monetary economy and the internal and international market economy.

—In distribution: serving social justice, providing an adequate existence for

all levels of society and raising the standard of living, which has been very

low to date, as a guarantee that the aspired equality will not be an equality

in poverty.
—In general: to preserve the contact with the old African traditions, for

instance, the classless society, multiple tribal ownership, an obligation to

utilize the soil, the duty to render social aid to one another, which was and

is personified in tribal village communities, in cooperatives and, above all,

in their nuclear cell, the African extended family. In addition, there are

social considerations based on religious traditions, particularly those of

Islam.

—There is to be a guarantee that Africa will become and will stay the economic

master in its own house and that international involvemnets will not exceed the

normal measure or lead to a new dependency on other, economically superior

countries, no matter what their ideological, political or geographic camp may

be.

In addition to the slogan of "neo-colonialism," which signified the negative,

defensive trend of the search for a native African way in economics, a positive

by-product emerged, the thesis of "African socialism" as the specific economic

system of this continent.

It was understood that the system was to be African. It was natural that it

was to be socialist, because to date there was neither any domestic capital

worth mentioning nor a native class of capitalists, and because the ideology as

well as the social and economic system of socialism have many roots in the

traditional African forms of life. In other words, Africans were more or less

born socialists without having been aware of it to date.

Soon it became apparent, however, that a decisive factor in the assessment of

the situation is the realization that it was not so much a rigid ideological

dogma but rather—something that is evident in many areas in Africa—a feeling

and a unique life-style.

No Obligation to Capitalism or Communism

There should no longer be any room for ideology of the old style in this age of

electronics and space travel, and neither the old "capitalism" of the first

industrial revolution which inspired Karl Marx to construct his countersystem

nor the pure "communism" which was proclaimed in 1917 and put into practice

under enormous sacrifices of people and material, which can only be compared to

those of a large-scale war, are still in existence today. Consequently, Africa

is not obligated to choose between these two economic systems which in reality

have become obsolete.

Capitalism has become more and more socialistic. When we look at the FRG, for

example, we can see that our system of the social market economy has so many

"socialist" characteristics that it hardly resembles capitalism in its

classical sense. But even in communist countries (which, incidentally, call

themselves the "socialist" camp) "capitalist" elements have reappeared as a

consequence of economic realities. Among these elements are piece work to

increase production, interest and economic calculations, the principle of

competition and even various forms of private ownership. It is said that in

the USSR there are again quite a few private ruble millionaires.
At any rate, Marxism seems to be less attractive to Africans than capitalism is

and apparently it cannot be transferred as easily because of its antireligious

attitude, its dictatorship by one class, its ruthlessness and force toward the

individual. Africans are sensitive in matters of freedom and dignity.

Consequently, African socialism is intended to be a practical system, adapted

to the current economic conditions, and it is to produce a higher standard of

living for Africans, all Africans, to be sure. Africa looks upo its^situation

as some kind of an economic state of emergency and considers itself in a

permanent state of war with three archenemies—hunger, disease and ignorance.

Less Idology, Better Results

It should be understood that such a struggle cannot take place without

planning, since no economic apparatus of any kind exists which could function

as a regulator. Consequently, attempts are in progress to select those

elements from its own past as well as from West and East which are most

appropriate for its current situation and to make the best of it.

Today in almost all of the African countries—with the possible exception of

the Ivory Coast, Gabon, Malawi and Liberia, countries are in reasonably good

shape—African socialism is preached and practiced. In the process it became

evident that there was a direct correlation between positive results and less

ideology as well as less rigidity in handling the system, in other words, the

more modern approach was, placing less emphasis on obsolete concepts of the

19th century, the greater the success.

Nkrumah, the first dogmatist, who wanted to equate his system with the

"scientific socialism" of the Marxists—one can read about it in his

books—almost led his country to economic ruin, and eventually he was ousted.

Something similar happened in Mali, a country which came close to Nkrumahism.

In spite of substantial support from a then non-socialist country like France

on one hand and the USSR on the other hand, two other countries of ideological

progressivism, Algeria and Nasser's United Arab Republic, saw only limited

progress until appropriate changes in course were made. Even in Guinea

economic success has been elusive to date. Its president Sekou Toure is one of

those who tried very hard in their speeches and writings to shape African

socialism into a native philosophical system. Several corrections in the

economic policy were necessary. Countries like Angola, Mozambique and Ethiopia

were also unable to register any successes.

Countries that proceeded pragmatically fared differently. Kenya, one of the

most progressive countries economically in Africa, was the first one whose

government defined African socialism in 1965 in a comprehensive paper and

submitted it to Parliament, which approved and established these principles as

the binding norm for the future economic and social development of the country.

State Ownership not a Panacea

Of course, in addition to the demand for social justice, a goal and guiding

principle was established, according to which the production process must,
first of all, be geared to increased efficiency. The methods are to be

flexible and adaptable and they must fit the current times: Production

according to expediency—distribution according to justice. As far as

ownership conditions are concerned, state ownership is not a panacea, because

abuse of property can also occur in the public sector. The best system would

entail sensible state control over property combined with a suitable tax system

to achieve the goals of African socialism.

In its so-called "Arusha Declaration" of 6 February 1967, the neighboring

Tanzania also defined its socialist guiding principle in detail, using the

Swahili word "ujamaa" (which means community). In this statement, the method

of distribution presents the primary difference between capitalism and

socialism as a characteristic of African socialism. It is a very serious

matter, and as a result ministers had to forego big official cars and all

persons in public life, performing services for the state or the party, had to

give up multiple residences and income from several sources to eliminate

opportunities for the exploitation of others.

Basis for Economic Cooperation

In addition, the Arusha declaration stresses another element of African

socialism. It is called "self-reliance," in other words, the country must

first of all depend on itself for its economic progress and not count and rely

on foreign aid, the availability of which cannot suffice to help all of Africa,

neither can it be completely unselfish, no matter who the helpers are.

Although or maybe because practice rather than theory was in the forefront,

Tanzania* s experiment, which had often been called the embodiment of

Afro-socialism, met with little success, particularly when compared with Kenya.

Particularly resettlements in the Ujamaa villages—combined with force and

disregard for the inadequacies of human nature—did not produce the desired

results.

Furthermore, African socialism cannot be a guarantee for economic success,

which also depends on many other factors. Last but not least, it depends on

the natural resources of the countries. Unfortunately they are so inadequate

in some of the countries that they will not be able to make a go of it, no

matter what system they might employ. One need only be reminded of the hunger

zone of the Sahara. Other disruptive factors are clumsy and still

inexperienced bureaucracies, corruption and other phenomena that exist

everywhere.

Whether it is successful or not, African socialism is a mixture of pratical

principles and moral demands and it can no longer be ignored as part of

Africa's reality. Consequently it will remain the basis for economic

cooperation between Africa and its partners in the other parts of the world.

After all, in spite of its independent system, Africa is still dependent on

such cooperation.

In the area of liberal economics, which applies primarily to the so-called

West, African socialism has definitely been accepted as a partner, following
initial misunderstandings. No doubt, in the beginning there was some concern

because of nationalizations and extensive controls and demands that interfered

with progress, but gradually these apprehensions were alleviated. A more

precise deliniation of different economic areas (for instance, in the Arusha

declaration) provided greater clarity. Accordingly, either the state alone is

in charge or a combination of state and private enterprise or it is the

exclusive right of the private economy.

Almost all non-African partners adjusted to the system, and there was no

evidence that there was a decline in interest among "capitalist" investors

following a period of transition. Anyway, it applied particularly to those

states that recognized the principle of compensation wherever nationalization

was involved. Investment guarantee agreements were concluded. Payment will be

on a long-term basis from expected profits. Negative factors, as far as they

exist, are related less to the economic system than to the political and

strategic insecurity and instability.

A factor that was more divisive than the attitude of the pragmatically thinking

and acting European and U.S. economy with respect to African socialism was the

attitude of communist-socialist countries themselves, whose own system is

dogmatically anchored as a kind of economic and social religion. They are not

genuine advocates of Afro-socialism.

No Possibility of Economic Consensus with Moscow

As far as they are concerned, an African as well as any other "national"

socialism cannot be genuine socialism, and they look upon it as nothing but an

incompetent bowdlerizaion of the creeds of "scientific socialism." The

theoreticians of the Soviet scientific socialism—for instance, the late

Potemkin, the best-known Africanist professor, as well as Gavrilov, Syslov,

Ponomarev and others—did not make any secret of their scepticism. As far as

they were concerned, it was difficult to comprehend the naive opinion of

Africans, according to which they had always lived in a classless society,

whereas according to the "Holy Scripture" of Marxism it was only possible after

the creation of a certain class—the proletariat—and its subsequent

elimination through the establishment of a dictatorship by this class.

Moscow's politics had to realize the fact that a consensus in politics could

only be established if it was directed against colonialism-imperialism and that

it could not be applied to the realm of economics.

Nevertheless, even in this camp efforts had to be made to adjust gradually to

the African reality. Foreign policy considerations as well as ideological

reasons necessitated greater emphasis on close and friendly relations with the

young states of the Third World and a desire to gain influence in that region.

In an attempt to classify Africans properly, subtle word games were employed,

using expressions and concepts such as step-by-step differences between a

"people's" and a "people's democratic revolution," between "socialist" and

"real socialist orientation," between "national democratic" and "revolutionary

democratic" stages, etc. During an international economic conference in 1980

in East Berlin, Ponomarev even offered an orientation aid to them, the "new

economic policy," in other words, Lenin's sin from the 1920's. All in all,
however, Moscow is now inclined to let Africans go their own way in pursuing

the development of their own continent, as long as it is "noncapitalist,"

although it continues to have reservations.

The German observer has had no shortage of economic and political ideologies in

his own country, from Marx and Engels to the German National Socialism, and

they have even become export items. All the Germans can do is wish the

Africans success in their attempt to find their own way into the economy of the

20th century, with the hope that they will remain adverse to ideologies also in

the future.

...No Matter What the Name is of the System in Use

Socialism as well as democracy, however, need for their successful realization

especially all the socialists and democrats. Without them they remain on

paper. The same applies to the African socialism of the present and the

future. Unless it becomes visible, it will not succeed.

When dealing with Africa, one can develop a picture of the present African

person which seems to be a guarantee that he will succeed in finding the proper

place in the African sun for his continent, which for its most part is very

fertile and rich in natural resources. Traits that are especially appreciable

in the African person are his joy of life, his sense of freedom, his natural

dignity, his sense of justice and community, his social sensitivity as well as

his exuberance and optimism. He will find a place in the sun, no matter what

the name may be of the system that will be used tomorrow or the day after

tomorrow.

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CAMEROON

REORGANIZATION OF MINISTRIES DECREED

Yaounde CAMEROON TRIBUNE in French 13 Apr 83 pp 1, 6, 12

[Excerpt] The head of state, President Paul Biya, acted

yesterday to modify the organization and composition of

his government.

Two new ministries were created: the Ministry of

Commerce and the Ministry of Plan and Industry. Four

notables left the government, including Mr Paul

Dontsop, former minister of state in charge of

foreign affairs and Mr Gilbert Ntang who held the

finance portfolio.

Two bank governors made a remarkable entry: Mr

Ntsama Etienne who became minister of finance and

Mr Nkuete Jean who became assistant secretary general

of the Republic. , o .

A third woman enters the government: Mrs Tanke

Elisabeth, named deputy minister of plan and industry.

The former minister of economy and plan, Mr Engo Pierre

Desire was named chairman of the CNPS [National Social

Welfare Fund].

Mr Tonye Mbog Felix yields labor to Mr Kamgueu and

retains foreign affairs, and Mr Ngongang Ouandj i was

promoted to minister of state.

As for Mr Tori JLimangana, he was promoted to the head

of the new Ministry of Commerce.

The series of decrees follows:

Government Reorganization

Article 1.
The clauses of articles 5 (1 and 3) and 6 (7) of Executive Order Number

79/473 dated 15 November 1979 and modified by Executive Order Number 82/646

dated 11 December 1982 are rescinded and replaced with clauses 5 (1 and 3) a

(new), 6 (7) (new) and 6 )7repeated) cited below:

New Article 5. (1) :

Apart from those cited above, the government departments are, in alphabetical order:

Ministry of Territorial Administration; Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

Ministry of Social Affairs; Ministry of Agriculture; Ministry of Commerce;

Ministry of National Education; Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and

Animal Industries; Ministry of Equipment; Ministry of Finance; Ministry of

Civil Service; Ministry of the Armed Forces; Ministry of Information and

Culture; Ministry of Youth and Sports; Ministry of Justice; Ministry of

Mines and Energy; Ministry of Plan and Industry; Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications; Ministry of Public Health; Ministry of Transport; Ministry

of Labor and Social Welfare; and Ministry of Housing and Town Planning.

(3) New Deputy ministers assist ministers in the following:

- Ministry of Territorial Administration;

- Ministry of Agriculture;

- Ministry of Commerce;

- Ministry of National Education;

- Ministry of Finance; and

- Ministry of Plan and Industry.

Functions of the Ministry of Commerce

New Article 6 (7)

The Ministry of Commerce is charged with implementing commercial policy.

To this end it is responsible for the:

- definition and implementation of commercial policy;

- marketing and export of basic agricultural commodities;

- definition and implementation of pricing policy;

- organization of fairs;

- formulation of statistics, the national accounts and economic reporting

in collaboration with the ministry of plan and industry, to be submitted

annually to the president of the republic;

- management of foreign economic and commercial missions;

- development of craftsmanship; and

- follow-up on the affairs of GATT and UNCTAD.

It oversees the:

- Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines;
- National Basic Necessities Marketing Office;

- International Institute for Statistics; and

- Hydrocarbon Fund.

Functions of the Ministry of Plan and Industry

7 (repeated)

The Ministry of Plan and Industry is charged with the implementation of the

five-year plans and the harmonious industrial development of the country.

To this end, it is responsible for:

- the preparation of the economic, social, and cultural development

plan and control of its execution;

- industrial policy;

- the development of small- and medium-size enterprises;

- management control of classified establishments;

- standardization, in co-operation with the Equipment Ministry;

- domestic processing of basic agricultural products;

- promotion and guidance of public and private investments;

- procedures for formulating and implementing investment programs and

budgets;

- international economic cooperation;

- follow-up on the affairs of UNIDO, UDEAC [Customs and Economic Union

of Central Africa], BIRD, etc...;

- human resource planning and definition of professional training and

higher education programs oriented toward the industrial and commercial

professions; and

- tourism development.

It oversees;

- the National Investment Company;

- public or para-statal industrial companies;

- state intervention, assistance and guaranty agencies for industries

and small and medium-size enterprises;

- the Pan-African Institute for Development;

- the Demographic Institute for Research and Development; and

- the General Delegation for Tourism.

Structure of the Ministry of Plan and Industry

Article 1.

(1) The Ministry of Plan and Industry includes:

- a private secretariat for the minister; a private sectariat for the

deputy minister; a central administration; and external services.
(2) The central administration of the Ministry of Plan and Industry

includes:

- the general secretariat; an inspector general; two technical advisers;

the judicial division; the general administration section; the industry

section; the planning section; and the programming section.

Article 2.

The Ministry of Plan and Industry oversees:

- The National Investment Company; public or para-statal industrial

corporations; state intervention assistance and guaranty agencies for

industry and small and medium-size enterprises; the Pan-African Institute

for Development; the Demographic Insititute for Research and Development; and

the General Delegation for Tourism.

Article 3. The organization chart for the Ministry of Plan and Industry is

specified in a special text.

Structure of the Ministry of Commerce

Article 1. The Ministry of Commerce includes:

- a private secretariat for the minister; a private secretariat for the

deputy minister; a central administration; external territorial services;

and economic missions.

The central administration of the Ministry of Commerce includes:

- the general secretariat; an inspector general; two technical advisers,

the judicial division; the general administration section; the internal

commerce section; the external commerce section; the prices, weights and

measures section; and the statistics and national book-keeping section.

Article 2. The Ministry of Commerce oversees:

- the Chamber of Commerce; mines and industries; the National Basic

Necessities Marketing Office; the International Institute of Statistics; and

the Hydrocarbon Fund.

Article 3. The organizational chart for the Ministry of Commerce is

specified in a special text.

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CAMEROON

BRIEFS

GEOGRAPHICAL UPDATING PROJECT—Two geographers, Mr Christon Santoir (Overseas Scientific and Technical Research Office, General Delegation for

Scientific and Technical Research, CGN [expansion unknown]) and Mr Athanase

Bopda (General Delegation for Scientific and Technical Research, ISH-CGN

[expansion unknown]) recently visited the Mvengue District in the Ocean

Department to update the regional atlas, Southwest-2 Atlas, which was researched in 1965. At Kribi, the two geographers collected essential information from administrative and political authorities on the Mvengue District.

After their field work, they must update the administrative map for the

district with chiefdoms'; boundaries—the population map; the food crops and

industrial production map; that of infrastructures (sanitation, schools,

etc.), on the urban and secondary'centers of the southeast section of the

country. The work of the,,two geographers began in :1982 "and will

be completed in 1986. They will also study the economic problems inherent

in the changing objectives of the plan. [By H. Nkouontoua] --[Text]

[Yaounde CAMEROON TRIBUNE IN French 27 Apr 83 p 4] 12308

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GABON

MINISTER MAKES OFFICIAL VISIT TO URUGUAY

Libreville L'UNION in French 21-23 May 83 p 4

[Text] The deputy minister for commerce and industry, Mr Guy Nzouba Ndama,

left Libreville yesterday at the head of a high-ranking delegation for a

visit to Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina.

At the invitation of the Uruguayan Government, Mr Guy Nzouba Ndama will make

an official visit to hold talks with the authorities in Montevideo, in the

context of strengthening economic cooperation and trade between the two

countries. During his visit to Montevideo, he will deliver a personal

message from the head of state, El Hadj Omar Bongo, to his Uruguayan counterpart, Lieutenant Colonel Gregorio Calvarez.

The Gabonese delegation will also travel to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where

it will take part in the "Africa 83" symposium on Afro-Brasilian trade.

The symposium is intended to strengthen contacts between African and Brazilian

economic operators within the context of South-South dealings, in order to

give impetus to the commercial relations between the Brazilian and African

chambers of commerce.

It must be said, in this connection, that Brazil has many reasons for taking

an interest in the African continent.

First of all, it is comparatively closer to our continent than Europe. And

it has goods and technology very well adapted to the African market, because

of certain similarities in natural and economic conditions.

African officials are generally pleased about this collaboration. All

this explains why Brazilian enterprises are so competitive on the markets

of the African continent.

During their Latin American peregrination, Mr Guy Nzouba Ndama and the

members of his delegation will also stop in Argentina, where they will make

contact with businessmen in that country.

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GABON

MAKAYA NOTES EXCESS OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN MINISTRIES

Libreville L'UNION in French 25 May 83 p 1

[Commentary by Makaya]

[Text] I, Makaya, often hear it said that our country lacks skilled people.

But I see just the opposite because I see many of them coming out of our

major colleges and our university.

I also see people occupying positions in the offices of big-shots and carrying

high-sounding titles like special assistant for this or for that. In fact,

the real problem here is how all these people are utilized. There they are

twiddling their thumbs all day; they do not compile any dossiers because no

one asks them to do so; they do not propose any new ideas because they

have finally forgotten everything.

In short, they are nothing but bureaucratic furniture, unemployed in all but

name, phantom functionaries, insatiable budget-eaters. Truly, they are

people who are not in the right place.

In a time of great austerity, it would seem to me useful for the ministries

to disencumber themselves of these people who should not be where they are.

This would take a heavy load off of government, one which threatens to spread

a gangrenous infection throughout the entire civil service!

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GHANA

EYEWITNESS DESCRIBES 19 JUNE ATTACK ON BROADCAST HOUSE

AB201442 Accra Domestic Service in English 1300 GMT 20 Jun 83

[Newsreel program]

[Text] A group of armed men in civilian clothes, some of them suspected to

be detained soldiers who had broken jail, yesterday morning entered the Broadcasting House and attempted to oust the PNDC [Provisional National Defense

Council] government. The group held up the GBC [Ghana Broadcasting Corporation] station for some 3 hours firing rifles, machineguns, and mortars.

Troops loyal to the PNDC, under the command of Captain Courage Quarshiega,

launched a counterattack and after a brief encounter, regained control of the

station. Among the GBC staff caught in the fighting was Yaw Asare Darko, who

recounts what he saw:

[Begin recording] At about 0945 the crackling sound of rifle shots, like the

sound of lightning, broke the silence of the gray drizzling morning. We saw

some soldiers at gate 3 on guard duty taking cover as firing continued. When

it became obvious that the house was under attack, we lay low on the floor in

the newsroom to avoid stray bullets. Later, we crawled out of the newsroom

to take refuge under desks and tables and more secure places in offices

nearby.

During occasional peepings through the windows, we saw armed men in civilian

clothes, one in a red tracksuit, running about the yard. One of them wore a

cloth and blue singlet. [as heard] Another carried a type of gun called a

Karl Gustav on his shoulders. From where we were, we could not determine how

large the invading force was. Soon the group, carrying and crouching stealthily, were all over the yard. Some of them took control of the armored vehicle.

A man in white trousers mounted a mortar near Studio 1. A group of female

staff were escorted from Studio 1 to GBC 2. A wounded soldier with blood on

his bare chest, and obviously in pain, was seen sitting on the floor of the

accounts block receiving first aid.

At about 1025, an air force jet on a reconnaissance flight sped over the

house. It was greeted whenever it zoomed past with a rapid outburst of gunfire from the ground, the armored car, and the rooftops, as the invading group

tried to shoot at it. An air force helicopter flying around the house also

attracted a lot more firing. Mortar, rifle, and machinegun shots shook the

very foundation of the building like thunder. Even newsroom staff, including

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the shift leader, were still crouching under tables and desks, trapped and

praying silently. In the dead silence that occasionally followed the firing,

we could hear only the songs of birds, the humming sound of the voiceless

radio, the clattering of the teleprinter still transmitting news in the

deserted newsroom, and the sound of falling rain. The absolute silence

emphasized the tension and anxiety of the period. A loud voice giving out

rapid orders rang out occasionally. Then another voice came through: Hey

don't run away, I see you, don't run away. The sound was followed by

machinegun fire. The smell of gunpowder was heavy in the air. At about

1130 am, activity around gate 3, where the invaders are said to have forced

their way into the broadcasting house, had subsided. Continuous firing was

for some time concentrated around gate 2, the area near the canteen, where

there appeared to be some resistance. An angry voice ordered those who had

gone into hiding to come out or get killed. Go forward, they will surrender,

one voice urged the fighting men. We could not tell which side of the fighting forces the command came from. It was still drizzling and showering intermittently.

Around 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the firing became intensified. One mortar

blast after another shook the building with thunderous impact. The shells went

off with a whistling sound and exploded, sending mild heatwaves around where

we were hiding. About this time, a Leyland bus belonging to the Tema Cocoa

Products Division, which had been driven into the yard after the group had

entered, drove away. The air force helicopter was still flying around with

the jet fighter zooming past again and again. Around 1230 the bombardment became more intense. It must have been about this time when the government

troops led by Capt Quarshiega, who parachuted from the hovering helicopter,

onto the top of a building in the house, mounted its counterattack.

[AB201511] The sound of breaking louvers filled the air under the thunderous

explosion of mortar shells and contact of flying bullets. One of the mortar

shells pierced through opposite walls of the newsroom and sent a big piece of

concrete crashing into pieces on top of the table under which I and the shift

editor, Mr Abbey, had taken refuge. Bullets smashed the louvers of the opposite room where the other five colleagues were hiding. With the building still

shaking under the impact of more shells, we immediately moved out of the dusty

office. Just then, we met the other five crawling out looking for a safer

place to hide but finding none. So, as the bombardment continued still ferociously, we lay flat on the cold floor of the corridor praying and waiting for

the worst to happen.

But soon after, it was all dead silence. Then we heard the sound of a moving

(?seagoer), a military truck. We returned to the newsroom again. There were

two gaping holes in the walls and the whole room was cluttered with debris,

among which we picked up a spent mortar shell. When we tuned in the wireless

set, we heard the voice of Captain Quarshiega announcing that the government

troops had regained control. Many other buildings in the house bear similar

marks of the onslaught; the outer (?reception) was severely damaged and part

of the roof of the revenue office ripped off. Those who had seen fighting in

the yard since 1966 describe what happened yesterday as the worst battering

the GBC structures have ever withstood.

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Capt Quarshiega confirmed in an interview that there had been a jailbreak at

the Ussher Fort prison. And according to other reports, there were similar

breaks at the Nsawam security prison early yesterday morning, and he suspected that some soldiers being held there for their parts in previous coup

attempts and mutiny were among those who held up the broadcasting house

yesterday.

In a television broadcast replayed on the radio, the chairman of the PNDC,

Flight Lieutenant Rawlings, confirmed reports that some of the dissidents

have been killed, some arrested, but it is not known whether the man Carlos

Gyiwa, who made the morning broadcast of the coup attempt and announced himself as operational commissioner of the dissident group which called itself

"revolutionary fighters," is among those killed, arrested or on the run.

[end recording]

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GHANA

BRIEFS

FISHING VESSELS SEIZED—Accra, June 18 (AFP)—The government here has ordered

the state takeover of two fishing vessels and the assets of its owners for

illicitly selling fish caught offshore Ghana outside the country. The two

vessels owned by Seaworks Kingfishers Ltd had been regularly discharging

prize fish at Lome, Togo, or Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from where it was then

put on the international market, an investigation found. The firm "had succeeded in duping the country to the tune of 3.6 million dollars in foreign

exchange," an official statement said. The vessels and the assets of Seaworks

Kingfishers Ltd. founded and run by a Reverend Jonathan Logan, were ordered

taken over by the National State Fishing Corporation. [Text] [AB181240 Paris

AFP in English 1230 GMT 18 Jun 83]

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LESOTHO

SPOKESMAN REACTS TO OPPOSITION FIGURE'S REMARKS

MB220637 Maseru Domestic Service in English 1600 GMT 21 Jun 83

[Text] A spokesman for the Lesotho Government has said that Lesotho

does not take its political directions from political washouts like

Mr (Makhalo Khaketla) of the Marematlou Freedom Party. The spokesman

was responding to reports in South African newspapers quoting

Mr (Khaketla) as having said that he was opposed to the establishment

of relations with the socialist countries. He is also quoted as having

claimed that the prime minister, Dr Leabua Jonathan, had reneged on his

commitments to resist communism. (Khaketla) is reported as having urged

the people of Lesotho to reject the present government.

Responding to Mr (Khaketla's) statements, the spokesman said that, even

though he masqueraded as secretary general of the party, the truth of the

matter was he had no political base from which to oppose relations with

the socialist countries. The party which he purported to represent was

a political reject, which had failed dismally to impress the people, even

after it had tried to buy them off with free rations of meat.

(Khaketla) himself, the spokesman said, was a discredited political nonentity, who had been thrown into a bottomless pit on the day when women

in Maseru pelted him with rotten eggs and tomatoes to show their spite for

him. The spokesman added that (Khaketla's) outburst against socialist

countries was merely a naive attempt to ride on the waves of South Africanorchestrated anticommunist propaganda, hoping that they will take him to

political fortune. He said that political fortune does not lie in the

newsrooms of South African propaganda media, but in the hearts of the

Basotho people, who (Khaketla) should attempt to convince that the

Marmematlou Freedom Party is no longer the anachronistic and irrelevant

organization which they unequivocally rejected from its inception.

The spokesman said that unless (Khaketla) could manage to attract the

minimum affection from the people of Lesotho he would never have the

standing to utter any political sentiment on their behalf, and his

hysteria against the Eastern countries would at best serve to excite

the pleasure of his South African propaganda masters, and not the people

of Lesotho.

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LESOTHO

RSA INTENT TO STIFLE LLA ACTIONS QUESTIONED

MB220834 Maseru Domestic Service in English 1600 GMT 21 Jun 83

[Station commentary]

[Text] The South African foreign minister, Mr Pik Botha, was reported this

week as having told parliament that he and the Lesotho foreign minister

had agreed on 3 June that urgent attention should be given to the question

of implementing the principle that neither country should permit subversive

elements to plan, encourage, or be involved in actions against the other.

Mr Pik Botha's statement, in our mind, confirms, Lesotho's view that the

Lesotho Liberation Army [LLA] bandits have over a time been using South

African territory to attack Lesotho, and carry out acts of murder and sabotage.

The arrangement made at the meeting is therefore welcome, as it would help

to reduce tension between the two neighboring states if followed. However,

a few questions remain to be answered. The first one is where and under

what title will South Africa keep the three factions of LLA—namely LLA

High Command led by Lolo Mokoena, LLA (Marabelle) led by Lesoli Makwa and

Major Mackenzie of South Africa, and LLA Lesotho Settlement Army led by

Matoane Maphifane and Tsidiso Rapetze—all of which have committed acts

of murder and sabotage in Lesotho. The second question is how does

South Africa continue to keep and give police guard to Mokhehle after he

has been using that country's soil to carry out acts of murder and sabotage

in Lesotho and return to that country.

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LESOTHO

BRIEFS

USSR, PRC TIES—The minister of foreign affairs, the Honorable E.R. Sekhonyana,

says anything that threatens South Africa security-wise would not make

Lesotho's security any stronger. The minister said this in an interview

with Radio Lesotho this week on whether the establishment of diplomatic

relations with countries of the Far East and Eastern Europe would jeopardise

South African security arrangements. On the question of the Soviet Union

and the PRC using Lesotho to settle their differences, as proffered by the

South African media, Mr Sekhonaya said Lesotho was not opening a war front

by establishing diplomatic relations with these countries but that each of

the countries will set up missions in Lesotho to look after bilateral

relations between Lesotho and them. The minister pointed out that the

presence of diplomatic missions from the Soviet Union and the PRC in one

country will not be peculiar to Lesotho, and that where these have existed

side by side there has never been a battle. Mr Sekhonyana concluded by

emphasizing that religion in Lesotho has a strong foundation and that it is

absurd for anybody to suggest that the presence of diplomatic missions from

socialist countries would affect religion adversely. [Text] [MB180718

Maseru Domestic Service in English 0500 GMT 18 Jun 83]

JONATHAN TOUR—The minister of cooperatives and rural development, the

Honorable V. M. Makhele, dismissed as nonsense the allegations that the

prime minister, Dr Leabua Jonathan's recent trip to the Far East and

Eastern Europe had anything to do with religion. The minister said this

when addressing a pitso at (Mtatelo Amaraka Pei) in the Matela constituency

on Saturday. He said it was unthinkable that Basotho, whose religious

beliefs were so deeply rooted in Christianity, could be swayed by relations

with communist countries. He went on to say rural development throughout

the country requires active participation and leadership from chiefs.

[Excerpt] [MB201924 Maseru Domestic Service in English 1130 GMT 20 Jun 83]

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NIGER

PREMIER TAKES INFORMATION-GATHERING TRIP TO MARADI

Niamey LE SAHEL in French 2 Jun 83 p 1

/Excerp£7" The prime minister, His Excellency Oumarou Mamane, arrived

yesterday morning in Maradi on a trip to make contact and gather information.

His Excellency Oumarou Mamane was welcomed at the airport by Major Dandi

Abarchi, the prefect of Maradi, the mayor of the city, Rhony Issoufou, the

general secretary of the prefecture, as well as by traditional leaders and

a large crowd.

Shortly afterward, the prime minister held a meeting with the cadres,

bringing together representatives of all the social and occupational associations. "We are here in Maradi as part of the policy of dialogue called for

by the head of state," said Mr Oumarou Mamane, speaking to the participants.

The meeting yesterday gave the prime minister the chance to expound on

three subjects: world economic conditions in general, and our own country's

economic condition in particular; national security; and the condition of

education in our country.

Regarding the world economy, Mr Oumarou Mamane shed some light on the cause

of the alarming situation worldwide: a situation, he said, which also

affects our own country.

But the prime minister added that in Niger the government is making considerable efforts to attenuate the effects of this situation, Besides the problems of Importing certain goods, which are being reviewed at this time,

the state is studying ways and means of dismantling some semi-public

corporations in order to leave the field open to Nigerien businessmen, the

prime minister said.

Thank God, he said, the food situation in Niger is a bright spot. Presently,

according to the prime minister, OPVN /Nigerien Foodstuffs 0ffice7 has some

100,000 tons of grain in stock, in addition to the holdings of the Nigerien

Rice Company. The latter presently has in stock 1,200 tons of husked rice,

and 950 tons of unhusked rice.

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On the subject of national security, Mr Oumarou Mamane described the

difficult problems some neighboring countries are experiencing. In that

connection, he exhorted the people to vigilance and national unity.

On the final subject, the situation in education, the prime minister fully

explained the situation prevailing in some institutions.

We note, finally, that the prime minister was accompanied on this trip by

the minister of state, the minister of planning, commerce and transport,

the minister of national education and the prime minister's chief of staff.

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SENEGAL

BRIEFS

1983-1984 BUDGET ADOPTED—At the conclusion of the first regular session of the

national assembly yesterday, the deputies adopted the 1983-1984 budget bill.

The amount of the national budget is now Fr CFA 273,984,000. The economic and

financial affairs minister and the president of the national assembly laid

special stress on the efforts and sacrifices that will be needed to emerge

from the difficult economic and financial situation the country is currently

facing. Mr Habib Thiam said that the country's economic condition is improving, and that now it is a question of improving the financial situation.

Then he thanked all those who helped make the just ended session possible.

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SOUTH AFRICA

CAPE SQUATTERS RETURN TO VACANT KTC CAMP

Squatters Return

MB200836 Johannesburg SAPA in English 0732 GMT 20 Jun 83

[Text] Cape Town, 20 Jun (SAPA)—About 200 squatters yesterday moved

back to the KTC site which has been vacant since it was enclosed with

barbed wire five weeks ago. The squatters, many of whom have been living

in a church in nearby Langa since May, said they wanted houses and the

right to stay in Cape Town with their families.

Members of the committee, most of them "illegals," said they had nowhere

else to stay and were "waiting for an answer from the government." They

said they were all former residents of KTC, scene of a three-month-long

conflict between squatters and the authorities earlier this year.

When the site was cleared, squatters with passes were moved to disused

beerhalls and are now living at the new township of Khayelitsha. Some

"illegals" were arrested and others escaped into the bush.

Yesterday, they began building makeshift willow structures only 10m from

the barbed wire which encircles the camp. The wire has been broken in

places and residents of the "legal" KTC camp across the road have been

using it to dry their washing.

Several of the camp's residents were recently released from prison after

being charged with illegally squatting at KTC. One, Mr Julius Komsase,

who was released on Friday, said he had been living in Cape Town since

1943. He has no pass, job, or house, and is prepared to go to prison

again rather than return to Transkei.

Squatter Settlement Demolished

MB201525 Umtata Capital Radio in English 1300 GMT 20 Jun 83

[Text] In the Cape Peninsula a new squatter settlement started next to

the KTC camp has been demolished. The KTC was cleared a month ago.

Beattie Hofmeyer has details:

[Hofmeyer] Seven Western Cape Administration Board vans arrived at the camp

this morning. Board inspectors confiscated plastic sheets and sticks that

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were used to build shelters. The materials were burned on a large bonfire.

Yesterday squatters started returning to the KTC camp, which was demolished

5 weeks ago. There are now about 200 squatters at the site. Most of them

are not legally in the area and have been living in the bush since the

demolition.

The squatters are still determined to stay. By this morning many shelters

had gone up, and they were using the barbed wire fence that is supposed

to keep them out as a washing line.

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SOUTH AFRICA

BISHOP TUTU ADDRESSES SACC NATIONAL COUNCIL

Bishop Tutu at Council

MB211223 Johannesburg SAPA in English 0959 GMT 21 Jun 83

[Report by Greg Smith]

[Text] Johannesburg, 21 Jun (SAPA)—Independence for SWA/Namibia was

unlikely in the foreseeable future because the border war was too convenient for the prime minister, Mr P. W. Botha, Bishop Desmond Tutu said

in Johannesburg today.

Addressing the national conference of the South African Council of Churches

(SACC) the general secretary said the war in SWA/Namibia showed South Africa

was anti-Marxist.

This meant South Africa could gain Western support and showed Mr Botha

to be different from Mr Ian Smith, the former Rhodesian prime minister,

"who sold the whites down the river."

"Nothing helps to drup up patriotic fervour and unity like a war.

"Mr Botha has the best stick for beating dissident right-wingers... and

it helps to keep domestic attention away from bread and butter issues."

Bishop Tutu asked why Mr Botha feared an election in SWA/Namibia when he

maintained SWAPO was not well supported in the territory.

"It is surely a nonsense to say you want free and fair elections and then

go on to say you won't tolerate Marxist victory as the South African

foreign minister, Mr Pik Botha, declared recently," Bishop Tutu said.

U.S. RSA Policy Scored

MB211233 Johannesburg SAPA in English 1031 GMT 21 Jun 83

[Report by Greg Smith]

[Text] Johannesburg, 21 Jun (SAPA)—The general secretary of the South

African Council of Churches, Bishop Desmond Tutu, today criticised

U.S. policy on South Africa and speculated that the Reagan administration

wanted blacks to know they were "expendable."

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Delivering his annual report to the council Bishop Tutu said the Reagan

administration spelled "unmitigated disaster" for blacks.

The U.S. had imposed sanctions against Cuba and had been ready to risk

the wrath of its Western allies on its embargo on the Soviet Union over

the gas pipeline issue.

But when it came to South Africa the Reagan administration was only prepared to consider "constructive engagement" when the republic should

have been written off as a dismal failure.

"Perhaps the U.S. wants blacks to know that ultimately they are expendable,"

Bishop Tutu said.

"When it comes to the crunch blood will be thicker than water."

Blacks would remember the U.S. "collaborated with and supported a regime

perpetrating the most vicious system since Nazism and communism."

Bishop Tutu said constructive engagement had not achieved independence for

SWA/Namibia, nor had it stopped bannings or forced removals.

"The South African Government is able more and more to cock a snoot at

the Reagan administration in much the same way as the Begin government

in Israel."

The U.S. would rehabilitate itself in the eyes of blacks only if it disengaged from South Africa, spoke up for human rights and took action to

back up its leaders "fine words."

"We find it galling that the leader of the so-called free world should be

hobnobbing so closely with our oppressors," Bishop Tutu said.

Changes Feared

MB211301 Johannesburg SAPA in English 1143 GMT 21 Jun 83

[Report by Greg Smith]

[Text] Johannesburg, 21 Jun (SAPA)—The primary violence in South Africa

was that of apartheid and racism and not that which was introduced into

the country by those who were called terrorists, the general secretary

of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Bishop Desmond Tutu,

said in Johannesburg today.

Delivering his annual report to the council, Bishop Tutu said there was

no total onslaught against South Africa but there was an onslaught

against apartheid.

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The "myth" of the total onslaught had been used to make whites "docile

and uncritical," Bishop Tutu said.

The violence of apartheid had turned blacks into aliens in their own

motherland and was represented by numerous race laws.

This violence destroyed black family life, "not accidentally but by

deliberate government policy."

Bishop Tutu said he feared real change in South Africa would come violently

and with bloodshed.

Those who believed that people such as those in the northern suburbs of

Johannesburg would accept a drop in their very high standard of living

so they could share that prosperity with others were being unrealistic.

Bishop Tutu said popularity among whites could be attained by those who

advocated change by peaceful means as long as it was clear the means

they advocated were going to be ineffective.

Conditions for Foreign Investors

MB211243 Johannesburg SAPA in English 1132 GMT 21 Jun 83

[Report by Greg Smith]

[Text] Johannesburg, 21 Jun (SAPA)—The general secretary of the South

African Council of Churches, Bishop Desmond Tutu, today outlined conditions

which he believed foreign investors should apply before considering operations in South Africa.

At the national conference of the SACC in Johannesburg Bishop Tutu said

investors should say they were willing to invest in South Africa provided:

—Their work force was housed in family units near their places of work,

thus eliminating the migratory labour system;

—Representative black trade unions were recognised whether they were

registered or not;

—The right of the worker to work wherever he obtained the best payment

was recognised, thus eventually scrapping influx control; and

—Fair labour practices would be enforced and massive investment would

be made in black education and training.

Bishop Tutu said these were not political demands. They made economic

sense, which was all the sense investors wanted and they would help to

change apartheid.

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Government Against SACC

MB211241 Johannesburg SAPA in English 1051 GMT 21 Jun 83

[Report by Greg Smith]

[Text] Johannesburg, 21 Jun (SAPA)—The South African Government had

decided long ago the South African Council of Churches must be removed

or rendered ineffective, the general secretary of the SACC, Bishop

Desmond Tutu, said in Johannesburg today.

He told the national conference of the council the government had

appointed the Eloff Commission, for "disgracefully unworthy political

motives." But, he added, the commissioners were acting in earnest and

with honourable intentions.

I have no doubt at all that the South African Government decided long

ago the SACC must go or at least be so hobbled in its work that...it would

be rendered quite ineffective as an unrelenting critic of the evils of

apartheid as perpetrated by the government."

The bishop said the government was annoyed that the SACC provided legal

defence for those appearing in political trials and was supporting the

dependants of political prisoners and of banned and detained people.

The Eloff Commission was investigating a body with an 80-per cent black

membership, yet there were no black commissioners on the panel, Bishop Tutu

said.

The government had appointed as chief investigating officer a member of the

Steyn Commission, "which declared itself so firmly against the SACC and

its general secretary."

"How did they expect him ever to be perceived as unbiased?" the bishop asked.

The government's purpose in the Eloff Commission was to allow "unsavoury

and totally unproved allegations" to be made about the SACC which would

then be widely published "by a complaint press and sycomphantic SABC

[South African Broadcasting Corporation] radio and television service.

This would create the right atmosphere for government action against the SACC,

"If your evidence against an individual cannot stand the scrutiny of an

open court you ban him. If you have no evidence against a critical institution then you declare it an affected organisation, thus saving you all the

fuss and embarrassment of a failed court case," Bishop Tutu said.

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SOUTH AFRICA

TERRORISM FROM BOTH RIGHT, LEFT CONDEMNED

MB210641 Johannesburg BEELD in Afrikaans 15 Jun 83 p 16

[Editorial: "Left and Right"]

[Text] A very clear warning to anyone planning to disrupt the internal

order in South Africa by terrorist means was given in the form of the

sentence to 15 years imprisonment for two former members of the Afrikaaner

Weerstandsbeweging [AWB—Afrikaner Resistance Movement] at the end of their

trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court.

It should now be clear to all that in court no distinction is made between

terrorism, whether from the left or from the right. Both strive for one

thing: undermining the existing order. Such attempts all get the same

treatment, in the same way that explosives do not discriminate among victims,

The supporters of South Africa's acknowledged enemy, the ANC are not the

only threat. The threat from the far right, as is evident from the court

case and the political views of the former AWB members, is not just an

illusion.

Those sentenced were two individuals, but the actions of such people can

become contagious. Before the violence syndrome develops an attractive

image in the eyes of the right wing of our political spectrum, it is good

that each and every one gets this message from the case in question:

Those who play with fire will get their fingers burned!

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SOUTH AFRICA

BRIEFS

BLACK COMMUNITIES RESETTLEMENT—The black communities of Langa, Inyanga,

and Guglethu in the Cape Peninsula are all to be resettled eventually in

the new residential area of Kayalitsha. The deputy minister of cooperation,

Dr Morrison, told our parliamentary staff that he could not say when the

process would be completed but that the three existing black residential

areas would later become available to the colored community. Dr Morrison

said orderly and healthy community development made it essential that blacks

in the peninsula were accommodated in a single area. The development of

Kayalitsha did not compromise accommodation only, but emphasis would be laid

on community development. Dr Morrison said homes would be provided for only

those people legally in the peninsula under the Urban Areas Act of 1945.

Referring to influx control laws, Dr Morrison said they were still being

applied consistently in the western cape and that the number of prosecutions

arising from Act 25 of 1945 was clear proof of this. From January to April

this year, 2,081 people had been prosecuted and complaints against vagrants

were being investigated. Dr Morrison said it was the government's conviction

that the western Cape should remain the traditional home and work place of

the white and colored communities. [Text] [MB211336 Johannesburg Domestic

Service in English 1115 GMT 21 Jun 83]

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SWAZILAND

EX-PRIME MINISTER REPORTEDLY HIDING IN PRETORIA

MB171445 Johannesburg SOWETAN in English 30 May 83 p 7

[Text] The prime minister of Swaziland, Prince Mabandla Dlamini, has been

traced to Pretoria.

And, amid developments which indicate new turmoil in the tiny kingdom, his

name has been linked with rumours that a "hit squad" is being assembled

in South Africa to get rid of the people who ousted him.

Prince Mabandla, who dramatically fled his country with his family, has

been living in an exclusive Pretoria suburb for more than a month.

He is staying there with the knowledge of the government—but his presence

is now troubling relations between South Africa and Swaziland.

Several recent developments indicate that Swaziland is facing new political

turmoil which is causing the family so much concern that they would welcome

Prince Mabandla back home.

A delegation from the royal family has been to see the Queen Regent, Dzeliwe,

to persuade her to ask the South African Government to return the prince to

Swaziland. The queen is considering the issue.

Prince Mabandla's own safety is said to be assured if he decided to return.

Any attempt by the authorities to detain him or to interfere with his

liberty could lead to an uprising, according to one Swazi minister. Swaziland

is said to be facing political turmoil.

The new prime minister, Prince Bhekimpi, confirmed in an interview that

investors had threatened to withdraw unless the country's economic and

political stability was assured.

The degree of uncertainty current in Swaziland can be seen from the fact

that Prince Bhekimpi referred reporters to Foreign Affairs Minister

Richard Dlamini for comment.

Dr Dlamini, who was the Swazi spokesman quoted extensively on SABC [South

African Broadcasting Corporation] TV during the Ingwavuma affair, is seen

by many as the real power in Swaziland.

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Multi-millionaire Natie Kirsh decided recently to drop plans for a

R38 million capital project in Swaziland, and to put his investment into

the Ciskei instead.

Mr Kirsh, who has extensive business interests in Swaziland and good

connections with senior Swazis, told Prince Bhekimpi last week that

Swaziland needed a "very clear economic and political policy."

Senior police officers have said police had been bombarded with reports

linking Prince Mabandla with an organization said to be aimed at ousting

certain Swazi government officials. The organisation is alleged to be being

assembled in South Africa.

Police concern has been heightened by the appearance of pamphlets calling on

Swazis to rise against the regime.

However, top police officers said it seemed Prince Mabandla's name was being

dragged in to encourage support for an underground resistance movement against

the Swazi Government because of his undoubted popularity in the Kingdom.

Prince Mabandla, who enjoys immense popularity, twice offered his resignation

to the late King Sobhuza and once to the Queen Regent. It was said Swazi

intellectuals would not allow the country to be run by illiterates, an apparent

reference to some in the present regime.

One of the pamphlets reads: "We have realised that Swazi independence is for

the few, for those whose fathers are either members of the royal family or are

related to the royal family."

Observers noted that the dismissal of Prince Mabandla, following the death

of King Sobhuza, appeared to have sparked a desire for change among people

who were previously politically unaware.

These people now felt there was no democracy in Swaziland.

Police sources said Prince Mabandla appeared to enjoy huge support among

educated people.

Had the Queen called a referendum, he would have been returned as prime

minister with an overwhelming majority, they said.

A source in the Swaziland Royal Family said members were deeply concerned

about Prince Mabandla's plans for the future.

"You must know that if someone is being harboured by the South Africans,

he is worth the trouble."

"South Africa would not have someone they cannot use effectively," the

source said.

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Prince Mabandla has been a top man in the country and he knows most

state secrets. If he were to divulge those secrets it would undoubtedly

harm Swaziland's security1.

Apart from the security question, the Swazis would like Prince Mabandla

back because his return could be a stabilising factor for his country's

industry and commerce.

The Swazi royal family is concerned about the country's image, which has

slipped considerably since the death of King Sobhuza.

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POUR 'MAJOR GOALS' OF 1983/84 BUDGET SET FORTH

Breakdown of Budget

Dar es Salaam SUNDAY NEWS in English 5 Jun 83 p 3

TANZANIA

[Text]

THE 1983/84 Government

Budget proposals have been

prepared under two basic considerations: First, the country's inability to generate

adequate foreign exchange to

pay for goods and services

needed to run the economy.

Performance in this aspect

continues to fall short of actual needs.

Secondly, Government expenditure is rising disproportionately with declining,

revenue, especially at this

time when many taxable sources such as industrial production and imports have

decreased because of serious

shortage of foreign exchange.

Given this difficult

situation, the Government

took into consideration four

major goals in preparing the

1983/84 budget. These are:

• To increase food and

cash crop production as well

as the output of the other

productive sectors such as

livestock, industry, natural

resources and minerals. The

aim is to boost exports.

• To consolidate basic

social services built during the

22 years of independence.

These include education,

health, water supply etc.

• To consolidate basic

economic services such as

transport, communications,

power etc.

• To adjust and normalise

the economy within the next

few years.

In all, the Government

proposes to 'spend 21,450

million shillings for the

1983/84 recurrent and

development expenditure,

which is an increase of 13.13

per cent. Some 15,620 million

shillings or 72.8 per cent of

the proposed amount .will be

for recurrent expenditure and

5,830 million shillings will be

developed expenditure. This

is 27.2 per cent of the ,total

amount.

Some 2,807,572,300

shillings or 18 per cent of the

recurrent expenditure will go

to the consolidated fund services; 3,655,761,000/- or 23

per cent to the 20 regions and

6,972,005/-or 45 per cent, will

be spent by ministries« and

Government departments.

The remaining amount of

2,170,769,400 shillings will be

for special purposes. Compared to 1982/83, the

allocation for the consolidated fund has increased

by isl.2 per cent; that of

ministries, and Government

departments by 6.1 and

regions by 14.3 per cent.

Some of the sectors given

priority in the 1983/84 budget

are agriculture, works,

education and health. Under

the ministries and government departments' vote,,

education has been allocated

1,046,328,200/- an increase of

14.6 per cent compared to .the

1982/82 estimates. Estimates

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for agriculture have increased

by 108 per cent in 1983/84

compared to 1982/83.

In order to achieve the objectives of the budget the

following conditions will have

to be observed:

• Increased production of

food crops as well as export

crops to generate foreign exchange for essential imports..

• Strict control over expenditure to ensure that every

shilling is effectively spent to

provide better service than

previously.

• As far as possible, selfreliant efforts should be made

to augment government financing which would strictly

cater for major requirements.

• Those eligible to pay tax

must play their part effectively without, evasion or

delay. : ^ • ' .' ">

Allocation of the; 5,830

million shillings earmarked

for development expenditure

in 1983/84 is based on the

following aims: j

To complete, on-going

projects; to increase production; to röduce foreign exchange expenditure; to boost

export earnings; to raise

productivity; to .revamp and

rehabilitate the economy. -"

To adjust the economy; to

promote the agricultural sector, specifically, crop production, livestock development

and soil conservation;;and to'

ensure that all other sectors

complement the agricultural

sector and that they save

foreign exchange.'

.'. The sectoral allocation of

. the development .'estimates

has taken into account the

Party and Government directive to give top priority to the

agricultural sector and

especially crop'production,

livestock, : natural resources

and soil conservation.,

This sector was extensively reviewed by an exclusive sitting of the Economic

Committee of the Cabinet (ECC) with a view to allocating it more development

funds in 1983/84. Agriculture has been allocated 23.84 percent of the total

development budget, compared to 10.6 percent in the 1982/83 estimates.

In order to ensure more strict control over expenditure of the development

estimates, the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs will insist on the

following procedures:

Disbursements for development projects will strictly be made according to

schedule of the action plans and upon timely submission of progress reports.

0 Projects utilising foreign exchange will be allocated the funds against

Bank of Tanzania guarantee that the amount needed in foreign exchange for

importation of equipment, vehicles, plant and other materials will be available at the time it is needed.

° Managers of projects based on reimbursable claims will not get funds for the

second quarter of the projects until they submit correct progress reports

accompanied by comprehensive documents on which claims for foreign exchange

reimbursements would be made to donors.

. • The Ministry of Planning

and Economic Affairs will insist on timely submission of

progress reports on projects

financed directly by donors to

facilitate acquisition, of additional disbursements from

the donors and smooth implementation of the projects.

•.The development budget

will be reviewed in mid year

to adjust expenditure trends

of various development

projects. This will enable the

Government differentiate between projects running

smoothly on scheduled .and

those facing implementation

.problems.

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Zanzibar's 1983/84 Budget

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 3 Jun 83 p 1

[Article by Attilio Tagalile]

[Text]

THE Zanzibar Government will in the coming financial year generate

922,277,400/- in revenue, the Minister for Finance, Ndugu Mohamed Ramia,

rl O C CO Ifj

Presenting the Zanzibar budget for the 1983/84 financial year,:on Wednesday, Ndugu Ramia said 170 million shillings would be sales tax, while

income tax would contribute 20 million shillings, customs .80 million

shillings/- and export tax 10 million shillings.

Public corporations were

expected to contibute

511,383,600 shillings while

ministries would provide

34 million shillings and

special and other levies

would bring in 36,994,800

shillings. Budget surplus

would be 60 million

shillings, he said.

Ndugu Ramia further said

the Government would spend

610,627,000 shillings for

development. Of this, 321.1

million shillings would

be raised locally, while

289.527 million shillings

would be in foreign loans and

aid.

The local component of the

expenditure would consist of

the budget surplus of 60

million shillings, contributions by the Zanzibar

State Trading Corporation

(ZSTC) and others would be

85 million shillings while contibutions by other tlocal institutions not falling under

the Zanzibar Revolutionary

Council would be 78.8 million

shillings.

Other sources would

provide 98 million shillings,

he said.

On the foreign component

which stands at 289,527,000

shillings, the Minister said

foreign loans would amount

to 214,471,000 shillings and

aid would constitute

75,056,000 shillings.

The Minister said recurrent

expenditure would be

918,680,000/-. He said the

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sum surpassed that of the

1982/83 financial year by

129,023,678/-, an increase of

16.34 per cent.

The breakdown of the

collection of funds for the

recurrent expenditure is as

follows; contributions from

various economic institutions

would bring in 212,199,097/-;

Zanzibar redemption debts —

181,800,097/-; interest

payment — 36,826,310/-;

sinking fund — 1,703,948/-;

loans recovery —

143,270,645/- and routine

collections — 525,680,000/-.

Ndugu Ramia said financial contributions and

redemption debt from various

institutions in Zanzibar has

been increased from

310,885,835/- in 1982/83

financial year to 394 million/-

in the fourthcoming financial

year, an increase of

83,114,165/- which he said,

was an equivalent of 26.73 per

cent.

He said contributions per se

had been increased from

198,482,185/- to 212,199,097/-.

He said this development had

been brought about by the introduction of extra financial

contribution on urban councils, the government contributions to the Party and

the ZSTC contributions in

development prejects.

On interest, the Minister

said the sum had been increased from 33,1$87,910/- to

36,826,310/-, an increase of

2,938,400/-. The rise, he said,

had been brought about by

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new interest payment from

the Malaria Project and

another seven per cent from

the Zanzibar Stock.

Ndugu Ramia said some institutions had been exempted

from contributing their financial share on the budget so

that they could strengthen

their services to the people.

He sighted the institutions

as the shoe factory, Zanzibar

passenger bus services and

district Revolutionary Trade

Corporation.

Other institutions, he said,

would pay more financial contributions while others would

pay less compared to what

they had been paying in the

past. . The Minister cited institutions whose contributions

had been increased as the

agricultural corporation,

small scale industries,

gocqnut oil and soap corporation and petrol stations.

Others are the Zanzibar

Motor Corporation, ZSTC,

Bizanje, Zanzibar Wharfage,

People's Bank, National Insurance Corporation,

Bwawani Hoteh Fishing Corporation and the Aman

Stadium Corporation.

Institutions which will pay

less contribution are the

Tourist Corporation,

TANESCO, ZSTC (Dar es

Salaam Branch), Livestock

Company and Furniture Company.

Ndugu Ramia said institutions which had not been

listed would continue to pay

the old rates.
TRC TO TAKE OVER NYASA SHIPPING FROM TACOSHILI

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 1 Jun 83 p 3

[Text]

TANZANIA

THE Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) will officially

take over operation of shipping services on Lake Nyasa

from the Tanzania Coastal

Shipping Line (TACOSHILI)

on July 1, it was learnt in Dar

es Salaam on Thursday night.

TRC Board of Directors

Chairman, Henry Limihaga'ti

disclosed this at a reception

for the Tanzania-Zambia

Railway Authority

(TAZARA| Council of

Ministers Chairman, Zambian

Minister for Power, Communications and Transport,

General Kingsley Chinkuh.

The reception for Ndugu

Ghinkuli and his delegation,

who was in the city to receive

TAZARA's three new dieselelectric locomotives from

West Germany, was held at

Gerezani Railways Club.

1 Ndugu Limihagnti, who is

also the Deputy Minister for

Communications and Transport, did not give details on

the take-over earlier

scheduled for this month.

The TRC Chief of Marine

Operations, Captain Erik Ove

Fronh, told the Daily News

later that the corporation

planned to operate a floating

port at Itungi, one of the two

major Lake Nyasa ports.

; The operations would start

with the 80-seater

TACOSHILI passenger ship,

m.v. Iringa, but TRC would

seek''funds'" td"purchase a

cargo -passenger ' ship in the

hexfc'ohe ana"half'years with

the capacity for 300 tonnes of

cargo and 250 passengers, he

explained.

Ndugu Frohn said

negotiations were underway

between TRC and DANIDA

(Danish International

Development Authority)

which had been requested to

provide 3.5m/-for importation

"of two landing boats and

other facilities for the floating

The floating crafts would be

used to ferry passengers and

cargo from ships which will

anchor offshore to the shallow

waters on the lake. Each boat

would ferry 60 to 70 people at

a- time.

The captain said DANIDA

would send a team of

engineers on June 15 to <>*udy

the Itungi Port. ÜANIDA's decision on

the request for finances

for the floating port

would be based on the team's

report, he added.

Ndugu Frohn said the TRC

would later approach donors

for some 15m/- to buy the

cargo/passenger vessel.

DANIDA was one of the

prospective financiers, he

said.

The marine operations

chief, seconded to TRC by

DANIDA -' said the corporation's long-term plans

were to run a floating port at

Itungi because of fluctuating

level of the lake waters.

He said it would be too expensive to construct a port

there. The shipping services

are operated between Itungi

and Mbamba-bay through

Makonde. Lupingu, Manda,

Nkili, Njambe and Liuli transit ports.

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TANZANIA

BANK SETS NEW EXCHANGE RATES WITH MAJOR CURRENCIES

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 6 Jun 83 p 1

[Excerpt]

THE Bank of Tanzania has published the new rates at which the shilling

will exchange with major currencies following the weekend devaluation o^f

the Tanzanian shilling. The rates become effective today.

The Bank on Saturday changed the central rate to 12.17875 shillings per

one US dollar, reflecting downward adjustment of the shilling by 20 per

cent.

The new rate for the Pound Sterling is 19.0767 shillings, up from 15.4450 shillings

before devaluation. One Deutsche Mark will now exchange at 4.81471 shillings, compared

with 3.83852 before the measure.

One Japanese yen will exchange at five cents compared

with 4 cents before

devaluation, while one Swiss

franc will fetch 5.80735

shillings instead of 4.64093

last Saturday.

The French franc will exchange at 1.60028 shillings

compared to 1.27740 last

Saturday, the new rates show.

One Special Drawing Right

(SDR), the IMF currency, will

now exchange at 13.11

shillings, compared to 10.45

before.

Zimbabwe dollar will now

exchange at 12.50 shillings,

wherer "before it-f*H"xi 9.98

shillings.

The Bank Governor, Ndugu

Charles Nyirabu, said the step

was taken-to curb inflation

and improve the cash flow

position of the majority of

crop authorities to enable

them pay farmers without incurring losses.

The Governor said the adjustment would boost exporters, and urged them to

take advantage of the

situation and make added efforts to increase their exports.

He stressed that adjustment

of the exchange rate was only

one of the many instruments

which could be used for setting the economy on its normal growth path, saying other

measures were being taken to

reinforce its beneficial impact.

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ECONOMIC, TECHNICAL PROTOCOL WITH MOSCOW SIGNED

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 6 Jun 83 p 1

[Text]

TANZANIA

Moscow, Sunday.

TANZANIA and the Soviet

Union have signed a new

protocol on economic arid

technical co-operation from 15*84

to 1986. The protocol will

provide to Tanzania a credit to

be used for partially financing

the construction of a technical

college atMbeya. ,..„,„

The protocol was signed by the

Minister of State for Planning

and Economic Affairs, Ndugu

Kighoma Malima, on behalf ot

Tanzania, and the Chairman ot

the USSR Committee for

Foreign Co-operation, Ndugu

YakovRyabov.

The protocol also provides for

setting up maize and cotton state

farms at Namtumbo in Ruvuma

region and Kwamsisi in Tanga

Region respectively. Acredit has

also been älloted to pay torspare

parts to the Soviet building and

other technology supplied for

projects of co-operation.

Professor Malima, who is

currently touring the Soviet

Union, said the talks preceding

the signing of the protocol were

held in an atmosphere of

partnership and understanding.^

He noted that, in the last 20

years, the USSR and Tanzania

had similar^ stands on key

international issues. Tanzania,

he stressed, regarded the USSR

as a true ally in the African

people's liberation struggle,

economic co-operation and in

reinforcing good political and

diplomatic ties.

Apart from assisting in the

projects, the USSR also sent to

Tanzania doctors and teachers,

and hundreds of Tanzania

students were studying in Soviet

colleges and universities, he

added.

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TANZANIA

TAZARA ASKS INTERNATIONAL DONORS TO FUND REVITALIZATION PROGRAM

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 2 Jun 83 p 1

[Article by Mkumbwa Ally]

[Excerpt]

THE Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) has , appealed to international

donors to finance its five-year

revitalisation programme to

attain its rated annual

haulage capacity of two

million tonnes.

The Chairman of the TAZARA

Council of Ministers, Zambian

Minister for Power, Communications and Transport,

General Kingsley Chinkuli.said in

Dar es Salaam yesterday that the

world community should emulate

West Germany which has undertaken to provide 14 dieselelectric locomotives to TAZARA.

Receiving three of the

locomotives at the TAZARA terminus, General Chinkuli said the

agreement between the Federal

Republic or Germany, Tanzania

and Zambia, was the best example

of North-South dialogue.

The Minister, who later flagged:

off one of the locomotives with

2,200 tonnes of Zambia-bound

cargo, said TAZARA was seeking

funds to finance short, medium

and long-term projects to

maximize its haulage capacity.

In the next five years, the

Authority planned to complete

repowering of its existing fleet of

Chinese-made locomotives, purchase equipment for workshops

and the permanent way;

procurement of new wagons and

construction of a sideway to link

Lake Tanganyika and the

TAZARA line.

General Chinkuli said the

Authority would seek funds to

finance the projects through

bilateral and multilateral

arrangements. ~ . i \y

"The world community should

be inspired by the precedent set by

the Federal Republic of Germany", he said.

The Zambian Minister said the

FRG initiative was exemplary

because the railway was bui t with

financal and technical assistance

from the People's Republic of China

which pursued a different ideology

Nine of the 14 locomotives to be

delivered by August, this year will

be financed through a 6Ui m.l.wn

shilling grant from the FRG to

Tanzania and a similar amount to be

loaned by the Germany Government

to Zambia. ... .

The remaining five will be

supplied through an 80 million

shilling loan from the West Germany

bank8for reconstruction,

Kredistantaltfur Wielderaufbau.

Ndugu Chinkuli said despite

operational problems, TAZARA

had faired -adequately" since it

started operations seven years ago

without relying on bank overdrafts

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TANZANIA

MINISTER COMMENTS ON TAZARA FISCAL 1983/84 BUDGET

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 26 May 83 p 1

[Article by Charles Kizigha]

[Excerpt]

TANZANIA-ZAMBIA Railway Authority (TAZARA)

expects to generate 541million/-

out of which some 421 million/-

are budgeted for expenditure

during its 1983/84 financial year,

it was said in Dar es Salaam

yesterday.

The Minister for Communications and Transport, Ndugu

John Malecela, who led

Tanzania's delegation to the

TAZARA Council of Ministers

meeting in Lusaka told the Daily

News on his arrival at the Dar es

Salaam International Airport

that the budget was approved by

the ministers.

Ndugu Malecela said that the

421milRon/- would be spent on

among other things,«improvement of the railway line and

motive power, general welfare of

the staff and administrative costs

of the authority.

On improvement of the line,

the ministers said that the

authority would concentrate on

rehabilitating the MlimbaMakambaku sector which was

washed away in ]£79.

On motive power, Ndugu

Malecela said that some of the

budgeted money would be spent

on purchasing new engines and

import spare parts for the revival

of the grounded ones. However,

the minister declined to disclose

the number of engines intended

to be bought by TAZARA.

The minister said that

TAZARA expects to generate

some 541 million/- through

hauling cargo and passengers.

He said that according to the

budget the authority expects to

carry roughly one million tonnes

of cargo and between 1.2 and 1.3

million passengers.

Ndugu Malecela said that

TAZARA could hit the 1.3

million mark if it had sufficient

motive power.

The minister also said that

there was less cargo to be ferried

upcountry through TAZARA

and attributed this to less

imports because of inadequate

foreign exchange in Tanzania

and Zambia. . He said the problem ot foreign

exchange has affected the authority

in terms of generating revenue. "It

you compare last year's budget and

that of 1983/84, there is no

improvement. Things are static," he

said.

Ndugu Malecela said that the

Council of Ministers also approved

the authority's 1982/83 revised

estimates whose original income

stood at 57.5.5 million/- but was

scaled down to 526.3 million/-.

The minister said that the actual

expenditure came to 377.7 million/-

from the original figure of 341.8

million/-.

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TANZANIA

VIJANA SECRETARY SAYS PREPARATIONS FOR TRIPOLI FESTIVAL GOING WELL

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 31 May 83 p 3

[Text]

PREPARATIONS for Tanzania's' participation in the

Pan-African Youth Festival to

be held in Tripoli, Libya, in

August are going on well, the

Youth : Organisation

(VIJANA) Secretary-General,

Ndugu Mohamed Seif Khatib.,

said in Dar es Salaam dver

the weekend.

Ndugu Khatib said the

national preparatory committee for the festival that

met recently in the city was

satisfied with progress made

so far by the various groups

and parties for the festival.

He, however, warned that

the committee could strike off

any group that failed rto

satisfy the requirements in

terms of preparations and

performance.

"The groups must conform

to the objectives of the festival

while at the same time reflec

ting the country's aspirations.

Otherwise, we will have no

alternative except to strike

them off", Ndugu Khatib

stressed.

He said Tanzania expected

to send a contingent of about

200 youths to the festival

which is scheduled to start

from August 22 to 31.

He said traditional dances

and musical troupes will form

the majority of the contingent.

There will be a total of 60 artistes in the group to be

drawn from the Tanzania

People's Defence Forces

(TPDF)rthe National Service,

and from Zanzibar.

The Friday meeting, held at

the VIJANA headquarters to

review progress in the

preparations, was chaired by

the Head of the Party

Organisation Department of

the Party National Executive

Committee Secretariat,

Ndugu Moses Nnauye.

Tanzania '

s

a'80 B°'nf? t0

show films about the country.

Three people from the AudioVisual Institute, Television

Zanzibar and the Tanzania

Film Company will be in

charge of the film shows.

Ndugu Khatib said a total

of 25 people from the men's

and women's handball teams

will also attend the festival.

They are -.women » handball

champions Buhemba

National Servtc* ^nd Ngome

from the TPDF.

Athree-man athletic team

will represent the country in a

marathon race while two persons will attend the international young artists

gathering.

Tanzania has been

honoured -to lead the

Southern Zone which includes

Zimbabwe, : Zambia,

Swaziland, Lesotho, Uganda,

Mozambique, Kenya and the

African Natipna-1 Congress of

South Africa. '

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TANZANIA

MARKET PRICES FOR MOST GRAINS RISE; FOOD SHORTAGES OCCUR

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 27 May 83 p 1

[Text]

MARKET prices for most of

the staple grains in the country have in the recent past

been rising and there had

been a noticeable shortage of

food supply in a number ot

areas.

However, measures are

being taken to put the

situation under control.

A Ministry of Agriculture

monthly bulletin, made

available in Dar es Salaam

this week, states that the

national average prices for

staples has risen by about one

per cent.

The shortage of some

staples is attributed to a combination of factors including

inadequate food inflow from

the producer regions and

slack distribution system.

Referring to the situation in

Dar es Salaam, the Minister

for Agriculture, Professor

John Machunda, said early in

the week that although the

food position in the city was

not fully satisfactory there

was no cause for alarm.

He said food inflow from

upcountry and outside the

country was picking up and

that efforts were on hand to

normalise the situation.

On Tuesday, Party

Secretary-General Rashidi

Kawawa stressed during an

on-the-spot assessment of the

commodities situation in the

city districts that distribution

of available goods should be

as equitable as possible.

'The main question now",

he said, "is smooth

distribution of the little that

is available. That is why the

Party has declared the war

against economic saboteurs

and racketeers".

The Ministry of Agriculture

bulletin, compiled by the

Marketing Development

Bureau, says in Dodoma,

municipal authorities have

begun enforcing strict price

regulations below the

previous market prices.

"In Tanga, Lindi, Mbulu

and Tabora, all supplies of

maize, rice, wheat, sorghum

and millet had dried up in the

markets by April 15, although

maize was available at the

beginning of the month".

The only produce which

recorded significant declines

in price between March and

April are onions and cooking

bananas. The price of the former has dropped by eight per

cent from ' 44.14 per

kilogramme to 40.78. The

bulletin says, however, that

the price remains more than

250 per cent higher than

November last year.

Cooking banana is said, to

have registered the largest

decrease in price for the

month, 19 per cent down, an

average of 1.41 per banana,

the bulletin says but without

explained reasons for it.

As for maize, the^ bulletin says

it was only Sumbawanga and

Moshi which recorded the lowest

price in the country. A tin of the

staple food was selling at 47/50

and 50/- respectively.

The highest recorded price was

130/- in Bukoba. In Arusha the

price per tin rose by 17 per cent to

70/-, while in Morogoro the

produce was reported to have

disappeared from the market.

Rice was most expensive in

Bukoba, selling at 27/50 per

kilogramme outside the market.

Arusha, Singida, Kigoma and

Iringa a price of 20/- per

kilogramme was recorded, while

the commodity was unavailable in

Dar es Salaam, Tanga, Dodoma,

Sumbawanga and Lindi, the

bulletin has noted.

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According to the information, exception in the case of rice was in Mtwara where

it was reported to have sold at the price of the National Milling Corporation

(NMC) 7/20 per kilogramme.

But unlike Mtwara—Tabora, Mbeya and Urambo are said to have recorded the

lowest market price of 8/50, 10/- 11/50 respectively.

As for other grains, wheat recorded the price of 22/50 per kilogramme in

Tabora and Sengerema; Sorghum remained at the steady price of between 4/-

and 51- in the important producing areas, while finger millet continued an

upward trend with the national recorded average price increasing by 4 percent

to 12/69 per kilogramme.

Fresh cassava which is filling

the gap left by the grains, rose by

1.3 per cent in urban markets between March and April reaching a

price of 53/61 per tin, but the

bulletin says the price of cassava

should be interpreted with

caution, as cassava is available in

most markets, but not in comparable units.

Dried beans, another important

produce, has risen by 10 per cent

over the period averaging 14/05

per kilogramme. In Morogoro,

Kigoma and Mpwapwa recorded

price per kilogramme was 20/-.

Bukoba and Arusha, which had

a big surplus this year, recorded

the price of 9/-, while in Tanga

and Dar es Salaam, the two

largest consuming centres, the

commodity was unavailable.

The bulletin further says that

potatoes have increased in price

by slightly more than 3 per cent;

cowpeas averaged at. 2/75 per

kilogramme; cabbage dropped

slightly in price from 13/50 to

13/09 per kilogramme and

tomatoes fell in price in several

markets, although the average

reported price remained stable.

Oranges were cheapest in

Mbeya at 70 cents per unit and

most expensive in Etodoma at 3/-

per fruit. Coconut prices averaged

at 9/23 per unit during the month.

The highest price of 22/50 was

recorded in Bukoba, while the

lowest price was in Morogoro and

Tanga where the commodity was

selling at 4/- and 4/25 respectively.

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TANZANIA

GOVERNMENT TO PROBE FORGING OF TANZANIAN PASSPORTS IN PAKISTAN

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 1 Jun 83 p 1

[Article by Charles Kizigha]

[Text]

THE Government is to investigate an alleged international racket involving

the forging of Tanzania

passports in Pakistan, the

Principal Secretary in the

Ministry of Home Affairs,

Ndugu Julius Matiko, said in

Dar es Salaam yesterday.

Commenting on an article

carried in Star newspaper of

Pakistan made available to

the Daily News, Ndugu

Matiko said the Government

was not aware of the alleged

racket but investigations

would start soon.

He said his Ministry would

get in touch with the

Pakistani Government

through formal procedures in

the course of the investigations.

"The Ministry of Home Affairs was aware of nationals

of an African country to be involved in passport

racketeering. A number of

them were arrested and

measures were taken against

them. It is the first time I am

hearing that Pakistani

nationals are involved in such

a racket", Ndugu Matiko said:

The article carried in the

Pakistani newspaper reads:

"Investigations conducted

following the arrest of a Tanzqnian national from Karachi

Airport, have revealed that an

organised gang of Pakistani

nationals involved in the'

passports racket are now printing forged Tanzanian

passports.

"The person who was

arrested from the airport by

the Pakistani Security Agency

has disclosed that he was a

Pakistani by birth and he had

purchased a forged Tanzanian

passport with the purpose of

smuggling. He had reportedly

puid Rs 5,000 for it (3,750/-)".

Quoting official sources, tht

Star alleged that a large number of Pakistanis are involved

in the racket. "They are using

the Tanzanian passport to

frequently visit India and

smuggle contraband goods

between 'the two countries",

the paper said.

It said this was easy since

Tanzania is a member of the

British Commonwealth,

travelling was allowed

without any formal visa

restrictions for the citizens of

the British Commonwealth

states.

"The racketeers have forged

Tanzanian passports and are

printing them in the city in order to make frequent trips to

India for illegal purposes.

Normally, a visit to India by a

Pakistani national is restricted to once a year only to

meet his relatives in India —

and for no other purpose except when allowed by the Indian Government," the paper

said.

The Star said the security

officials were conducting an

inquiry into the illegal Sale of

forged Tanzanian passports.

The smugglers were reportedly taking second hand garments from Pakistan to India

and bringing back saris, pans

and other goods which had a

good market in Karachi, the

Star said.

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TANZANIA

BRIEFS

CULTURE, EDUCATION AGREEMENT WITH FRG—A West German foundation, the Friedrich

Ebert Stiftung (FES) will assist Tanzania in the fields of culture and education following an agreement signed in Dar es Salaam yesterday. According

to a statement by the Ministry of Manpower Development, the assistance

programme will extend to other organs of the country such as the Party and

the Mass Organisations, in order to spur Tanzania's development strategy.

The agreement was signed by the Resident Representative of FES in Dar es

Salaam Mr Kurt Haesemeyer on behalf of the foundation and the Director of

Training and Manpower Allocation, Ndugu J. Nyakirangani, on behalf of the

Tanzania Government. So far the foundation, which is a wing of the Social

Democratic Party of the Federal Republic of Germany, has undertaken extensive

assistance programmes in Tanzania especially in the Mass Media, cooperatives

activities, adult edudation and manpower development and has assisted in

the establishment of manpower data bank for the country. [Text] [Dar es

Salaam SUNDAY NEWS in English 5 Jun 83 p 1]

REGIONAL TRADING COMPANIES DISSOLVED—The chairman of the Zanzibar Revolutionary Council, Ndugu Aboud Jumbe, yesterday dissolved the Isles regional

trading companies (RTCs) and directed the formation of district trading

corporations to deal with distribution of commodities. Ndugu Jumbe asked

all district leaders with the exception of Zanzibar Urban District, to form

the trading corporations soon so that smooth distribution of goods to the

public was maintained. Zanzibar Urban District, with a third of the total

population of Zanzibar will have four organs which will deal with distribution of goods in different areas. He did not elaborate on the organs.

[Excerpt] [Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 30 May 83 p 1]

TIPER FUEL PRODUCTION RESUMING—The Tanzania and Italian Petroleum Refining

Company (TIPER) resumes fuel production this weekend after a two-week

stoppage following non-availability of crude oil. TIPER*s Managing Director

Viero Cognigni said in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Mr Cognigni said some

50,000 tonnes of crude oil had arrived from Iran. And "off-loading of the

consignment has started and fuel production is likely to resume on Saturday

or Sunday." [Text] [Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 3 Jun 83 p 3]

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ZAMBIA

MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED ZAIRIANS ROUNDED UP FOR DEPORTATION

Lusaka TIMES OF ZAMBIA in English 19 May 83 p 1

[Text] MORE than 100 Zaireans

including ten alleged members

of an anti-Mobutu party, have

been deported and will be

bundled out of Zambia today.

A spokesman for the'immigration department confirmed

in Lusaka yesterday the

Zaireans were rounded up last

Friday.

The spokesman could not

give the exact number of

people involved, but said

"they are more than 100". The

deportees are at Makerii

refugee camp.

The ten who are said to be

members of a rebel party have

been disowned by the local

office of the United Nations

High Commission for Refugees, because they had failed

to prove they were genuine

refugees.

But an oilicial oi the party,

the National Front for the

Liberation of the Congo

(FNLC), protested at the

Lusaka Times of Zambia

office that they would be

persecuted by Field Marshal

Mobutu Sese Seko's government if repatriated. The

official is one of the

deportees."

It was the same rebel group

which tried to overthrow the

Kinshasa government in 1978.

The FNLC official gave

names of members being

deported saying they were the

same ones who iast week issued a'Press statement accusing

the local refugees office of

inciting the Zambian Government to deport them.

In the statement they urged

the Government to relent as

forced repatriation would

endanger their lives in Zaire.

But according to the

refugees office the ten had

been "given the benefit of the

doubt for many months" and

investigations Droved .that

"they do not qualify to be refugees under our mandate"

If they had ranged themselves against their home

government then they were the

responsibility of Zambian

authorities as the refugees

office does not cater for freedom movements not recognised by the Organisation of African Unity.

It was also confirmed that

the Government had asked the

UNHCR office to find an

alternative country for a

Zairean politician who has

been here for a long time but

the man was still resisting the

move although Canada had

offered to accept him.

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ZAMBIA

TDAU 'SUCCESSFUL' IN MAKING PROTOTYPE PROCESSING MACHINERY

Lusaka TIMES OF ZAMBIA in English 26 May 83 p 2

[TextJ j^jg University of Zambia Technology Development and Advisory Unit

GTDAU) has scored major successes in the making of various prototype processing machinery vital to the industrial progress.

Most projects undertaken by the unit were

related to rural development, according to a

report released in

Lusaka.

With the help ot United

Nations agencies and other

local bodies the unit was fully

committed to carrying out

research into indigenous technologies for possible identification and development.

The unit associated with the

school of engineering at Unza,

succeeded in making a final

prototype cashew nut processing plant which was tested

in Mongu.

The project was carried out

in conjunction with the

mechanical engineering

department with financial

support from the department

of agriculture.

The unit successfully made

a hand-operated maize shellerusing scrap steel in collaboration with the vulcan foundries

of Lusaka. Arrangements were

being made to make a

further ten items for field

testing.

Various windmill components identified as suitable

for Zambia's small-scale

farming were being made by

the fourth-year engineering

students.

The report says the unit

manufactured items suitable

for demonstration such as

winnower, ox-cart and hay

press.

Other projects included the

development of a pedal

operated maize grinder

designed by the tropical

product institute of Britain

and modified for grinding

multipurpose grains in Zambia.

"This mill uses a high

speed grinding action which is

similar to that used by a

conventional powered hammer

mill,"„the report says.

Because of increased emphasis on minimum tillage, the unit developed a

hand-operated jab-planter based on the older model of the hand-operated

injection planter. It was being tested for its technical suitability by

the school of agricultural sciences.

Design and development of

a solar heater for rural hospitals and community centres

was undertaken and completed.' Testing was being

carried out in preparation for

modifications before production of the final prototype.

The unit developed a simple

loom frorn^ an original Norwegian design which could be

used by local weavers.

"In the area of implement

development the unit concentrates mainly on primary

design and development up to

prototype manufacture and

testing stages.

"Once a scheme is proven

it is handed over to outside

interests for -full commercial

exploitation.,"" the report

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ZAMBIA

MINISTER OPENS TAZARA COUNCIL OF MINISTERS MEETING IN LUSAKA

Lusaka TIMES OF ZAMBIA in English 25 May 83 p 1

[Text] ZAMBIA is concerned at the backlog of her cargo on

the Tazara line and the performance of Dar es Salaam

harbour, Minister of Power, Transport and Communications General Kingsley Chinkuli said in Lusaka

yesterday.

But Gen Chinkuli's Tanzanian counterpart Mr John

Malecela said the operational

problems confronting Tazara

arose largely from the huge

debt incurred in constructing

the line.

Opening the Tazara council

of ministers meeting, Gen

Chinkuli urged the council

and Tazara management to

find a solution to the problem and speed up the flow

of cargo.

He called for the streamlining of the flow of documents

between Zambia and Tanzania. '

Tazara needed 33,000

tonnes of metal every year if

the system could haul the load.

The Zambian Government

was doing its best to fulfil

its tonnage on the line, but

recently it had become clear

Tazara could not haul all the

cargo available.

The recent acquisition of

German locomotive engines

should go a long way towards

alleviating the problem, but

there was still need for Zambia

and Tanzania to appeal to

their international friends for

more help.

Gen Chinkuli said the exercise to re-power Chinese

engines on the system would

continue.

The two governments must

follow up pledges made to

Tazara projects at the donor

meeting of the Southern

African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC)

in Maseru, Lesotho, recently.

To streamline the flow of

documents between Lusaka

and Dar es Salaam, Gen Chinkuli said the Zambian

Government intended to open

offices of the Zambia National

Clearing and Forwarding

Company in Dar and hoped

the firm would receive cooperation from Tanzania.

The minister was concerned

at the recent high spate of

accidents on Tazara, saying

the system had experienced

six serious mishaps since

February.

"The accidents are costing

us a lot of money in form of

cargo loss and equipment

replacement. The council of

" ministers must consider this

problem and find a solution

to it."

Gen Chinkuli took over the

chairmanship of the council

from Mr Malecela and will

. head it for the next 12 months.

Handing over the chairmanship, Mr Malecela said Tazara

had performed far better than

most, older African railway

systems given her relative

infancy.

He said if critics of the

system could draw up a

balance-sheet contrasting the

performance of Tazara and

those of relatively older

African systems which have

had a lot of money put into

them it could turn out that

Tazara has a surplus.

He said the line had made

a lot of progress since the

last council of ministers

meeting in Dar.

It was working to incorporate her programme within

the larger SADCC pro-

. gramme.

"Some of the projects have

been inscribed within SADCC.

We hope they will receive

the necessary financial backing," Mr Malecela said.

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ZAMBIA

BANK OF ZAMBIA RELEASES DECEMBER 1982 QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REVIEW

Lusaka TIMES OF ZAMBIA in English 23 May 83 p 1

[Text] THE Government recorded a reduced budget deficit of

K 108.3 million during the third quarter of last year as

compared to K 176.2 million in the preceding quarter.

This is contained in the

Bank of Zambia's December

1982 quarterly financial review

which was released in Lusaka

at the weekend.

The report says although

the deficit during the current

quarter was relatively small, it

was still larger than the

deficit of K56 million registered in {he corresponding

quarter of 1981.

"The improvement in the

Government budgetary position during the review period

was because of large increases

in total revenue and drasticcuts in recurrent expenditure.

"Another welcome development was a sharp increase in

capital expenditure during the

period compared to April-June

1982 quarter."

The total Government revenue went up "substantially" from K194 million to

K23.892 million during the

quarter. This was an increase

of K44.2 million or 22.8 per

cent.

This represented an increase of 3.8 per cent over

K229.5 million collected in the

quarter ended September

1981. J

The largest source of

Government revenue during

the period under review was

income tax which contributed

K98.6 million as compared to

K58 million in the previous

quarter.

"Accounting for this huge

increase were collections from

company and other taxes,

comprising those'on property,

financial and capital transactions, which rose sharphby K57.2 million and K3.9

million to K61.S million and

K13.6 million over this period

respectively," the report says.

Total Government expenditure declined during the

quarter under review because

of the fall in the current

expenditure which went down

by K49.8 million or 14.3 per

cent from K348.4 million in the

second quarter to K298.96

million in the third quarter

of 1982.

But despite this reduction

the level of recurrent expenditure was still 20.5 per cent

higher than that of the

corresponding quarter of the

previous year.

On financing and overall

balance, the report says the

deficit of K108.3 million

during the quarter was financed largely by use of cash

balances with the banking

system.

These were run down by

K83.1 million, a much lower

figure when compared to

K171.8 million utilised in the,

preceding quarter. Compared

to the corresponding quarter

of 1981, this form of financing

was higher by KM. 1 million-.

"Domestic borrowing

amounted to K26.8 million, of

which K1.6 million went

towards reducing foreign indebtedness," the report says.

"The deficit during the

quarter under review was

entirely financed through an

increase in domestic borrowing of K7Ü.5 million. Foreign

reserves and net foreign

borrowing were reduced by

K0.5 million and Kl.b million,

respectively."

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ZAMBIA

PARIS CLUB SETS CONDITIONS FOR NATION'S DEBT RESCHEDULING

Lusaka TIMES OF ZAMBIA in English 24 May 83 pp 1, 5

[Excerpt] jHE Paris Club has

directed the Zambian

Government to improve

its foreign exchange

management and revitalise the productive sector

of the economy as part of

the conditions for rescheduling Zambia's

K 1.3 billion debt.

Member countries of the

club stressed the importance

they attached to full implementation of programmes

aimed at reviving Zambia's

parlous economy.

The Paris Club, ordered

Zambia to negotiate üromotlv

the rescheduling of its loans

with all creditor nations, according to details which were

yesterday given .to the Times

of Zambia by.>ühe Prime

Minister's Office..:

Premier Muncfia has just

returned from Paris after

meeting the Paris Club leaders. ' . : . The Government is required to give each of the

'. creditor countries a treatment

as favourable as that given

to any creditor country for the

consolidation of the debt of a

comparable term.

Zambia has undertaken to

pay K7 million in all debt

service dues owed to or

guaranteed by the governments of the creditor nations

or their appropriate institutions not later than October 1,

1983.

The provisions set forth in

the agreement do not apply to

countries where debts due

during the re-organisation

period are less than Special

Drawing Rights 500,000. The

club has ordered that payments to countries involved

should be made on the .

original due dates.

Payments already due and

not paid should be made not

later than October 1, 1983.

Each of the creditor countries has agreed to indicate

to the chairman of the creditor

group the date of the signature

of its bilateral agreement, the

interest rates and the amount

of the debts involved. -

The Zambian Government

acknowledges this agreement.

During the club talks

Mr Mundia outlined' the

serious economic and financial

problems. He mapped out

Zambia's strong determination to reduce the economic

and financial imbalances and

to reach the targets of the

programmes underlying the

standby arrangement with the

International Monetary Fund.

The representatives of the

IMF viewed with sympathy

Zambia's economic position

and the major elements of the

programme of adjustment

which had been undertaken

by the Government to lift its

economic situation from the

quagmire.

Part of the condition for

rescheduling Zambia's debts

is that the Government should

revitalise the productive sector

of the economy and the improvement of public finances

and foreign exchange management.

Mindful of the serious

payment difficulties the Paris

Club recommended that credi-.

tor countries agree to recommend to their countries or

appropriate institutions that

they provide, through rescheduling or re-financing, debt

relied on these terms:

• Debts concenied: Commercial credits guaranteed or

insured by the government

of the creditor countries or

institutions according to a

contract or other financial

arrangement concluded before

January 1,1983:

• Loans from governments

or Institutions of the participating countries in accordance

with an agreement concluded

before January 1,1983;

• Terms of the consolidation:

The debt relief will apply for

the period January 1, 1983 to

December 31,1983;

• Ninety per cent of the

amounts of trie principal and

interest due to January 1,

1983 up to December 31, 1983

inclusive, and not paid, on

loans and credits having an

original maturity of more

than one year, will be rescheduled and financed;

• Repayment of the Government of Zambia of the corresponding sums will be made in

ten equal and successive semiannual payments, the first

payment to be made on December 31, 1983 (end of grace

period) and the final payment

to be made on June 30, 1983

(end of repayment period).

The remaining ten per cent

will be paid according to this

schedule:

•Two per cent according to

the original schedule;

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• And in any case not later "% Two per cent on December ed in the first paragraph will

than on December 31,1983; 31.1987. be repaid in ten equal and

•Two per Cent on December On arrears at December 31, successive semi-annual pay31,1984; 1982, the amounts of the ments, the first payment on

•Two per cent on December principal and the rates due and December 31. 1983 and the

31.1985; not paid on that date inclusive final payment on June 30,

• Two per cent on December for loans and credits mention- 1988.

31.1986:

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ZAMBIA

REHABILITATION WORK ON ZAMBIA RAILWAY BEGINS

Lusaka TIMES OF ZAMBIA in English 19 May 83 p 5

[Excerpt] WORK on rehabilitating the 262 kilometres of the 81-year-old Zambia

Railway line between Mukamunga near Choma and Livingstone at a cost

of more than K30 million has started, Power, Transport and Communications Minister General Kingsley Chinkuli said in Livingstone yesterday.

This line in the past 34' is the first time

the line would be

revamped in 34 years and

the project would be carried out in two phases.

Already 45 km of the 112 km

distance between Mukamunga

and Mukwela has been covered

as the first phase and was being

financed by the World Bank at

a cost of more than K16

million.

The last phase would cover

• -the 150 km stretch between

Mukwela and Livingstone at a

cost of K15 million and the

money is expected to come

from the World Bank.

General Chinkuli said if the

World Bank does not fund the

•last phase the Government'

would raise the money from

other sources.

The exercise was being carried out under the company's

third railway project.

It was important the line

should be upgraded now because in future it could be too

expensive as a result of rising,

costs.

The minister, who was

speaking during his familiarisation tour of Zambia Railways operations, said there

had been no major overhauls

of the

years.

The Government would

have to find money to revamp

the Mulobezi line but now it

was not possible to do this

because of Zambia's economic

problems.

. The line was the responsibility of the Government

and the Ministry of Power,

Transport and Communications would discuss the matter

in the Cabinet.

The Government was rehabilitating two bridges al

•Bombwe and Ngwezi at

a cost of K1.5 million although

the Government was not generating enough revenue from

the line because of its poor

condition.

The Government owed Zambia Railways a lot of money

for technical operations on the

line.

Zambia Railways management and his ministry were

now discussing the newly

raised ca^go rates.

The minister urged Zambia

Railways to ensure it took'

over all the transportation jobs

along the line of rail to reduce

costs and save the roads from

damages caused by trucks

carrying heavy loads. ~

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ZAMBIA

CCM SAYS RURAL INFLUX TO CITIES CONTRIBUTES TO FOOD SHORTAGES

Lusaka TIMES OF ZAMBIA in English 23 May 83 p 5

[Excerpt] THE influx of rural people into urban centres has contributed to food shortages in Zambia, Central Province Member of the Central Committee Mr Samuel

Mbilishi has said.

Addressing the Central Province council of chiefs at the.

President's Citizenship College near Kabwe at the

weekend, he said few people

remained in rural areas to

grow enough food to feed

urban dwellers.

Zarnbians should not be surprised at the rising prices of

.mealie meal because maize

was being imported at a

great cost since not enough

was grown locally.

"We buy maize from'outside

to supplement our shortfall

at K28 a bag. How can wc

afford to sell the same bag

atK16losingKI2abag?"

The only way to lower mealie

meal prices was to produce

enough maize locally.

"The big problem ' Zambia

faces is that there are far

more consumers than producers."

He urged chiefs to mobilise

their people to take up agriculture seriously and ensure

the agrarian revolution succeeded because Zambia's

future dependend on it. ,

"Your people should be encouraged to form cooperatives to improve their well

being."

Mr Mbilishi appealed to them

. to stop 4

uarre"m

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DISPUTE WITH ITALIAN GOVERNMENT DELAYS ROAD PROJECT

Lusaka SUNDAY TIMES in English 22 May 83 p 1

ZAMBIA

[Excerpt] A PROTRACTED wrangle over a grace period on a

loan to Zambia from the Italian government has

held up a K52 million road project in Eastern Province.

The wrangle was confirmed by

/Italian ambassador to Zambia Mr Georgio Cunco and

was disclosed by Chama

Member of Parliament Mr

Nephas Tembo when he

addressed his constituents

during the week.

"Zambia and Italy have been

arguing on the question of

the grace period for about

six years now and this has

in turn held up this

important road project," Mr

Tembo said.

Tenders for the construction of

the road — to pass through

Matumbo,. Chama and Lunda/i — had already been

awarded to an Italian firm,

Coficfa. which built the

Ndola-Kitwe dual carriageway. . Mr Tembo said Zambia

wanted a five-year grace

period on the loan but the

Italian government' wanted

less than that.

In readiness for construction work 70 Cogefa workers

'and heavy equipment were

set to move to the site once

the differences between the

two governments were

resolved.

Mr Tembo urged the Government to speed up negotia-

, ttons "because they are

holding up a vital project.

The longer the construction

work takes the more costly

the project will become".

Mr Cuneo said a Zambian

delegation left for Rome

last month but there was

no new development to the

negotiations because he had

not been briefed by either

parties.

"Since the Zambian delegation went to Rome about a

month ago they have

returned without any definite answer. However we

want to finalise the projeqt

as soon as possible because

this has taken more than

two years."

The envoy said he would get

in touch with his government to find out the latest

on the project and would in

turn communicate this to the

Times of Zambia "in the

coming week".

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ZAMBIA

IDA LOAN FOR WATER SUPPLY SERVICES IN SIX DISTRICTS

Lusaka DAILY MAIL in English 17 May 83 p 1

[Excerpt] ZAMBIA has been offered a K19.2 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) for the expansion of water supply

services in six districts in the Northern, Luapulaand Copperbelt Provinces.

Announcing the " credit " in' »•->--=

Lusaka yesterday, an IDA spokesman said the Zambian

Government will contribute

K6.7 million bringing the total

to K25.9 million for the project.

He said the project will

improve and expand water

supply facilities in the districts of Isoka, Kaputa, Kawambwa, Mbala, Samfya and

Ndola rural which will benefit an estimated 140,000 people.

With this sum, Zambia will

install piped water systems in

four administrative centres in

Isoka, Mpulungu, Kawambwa

and Samfya 'and construct

400 wells and 42 boreholes in

selected villages in the six

districts. •

In addition, the spokesman

said in a statement, the project will provide and upgrade

two provincial and six district

workshops and supply them

with tools, equipment and

vehicles.

Technical assistance will

also be provided in project

co-ordination, cost and management and maintenance engineering, the spokesman

said.

He added that overseas

scholarships for training of

professional staff «if the

department of Water Affairs

are included in the multimillion Kwacha project.

Zambia has received 34

loans and credits from the

World Bank, totalling nearly

K750 million. World Bank

supported projects are in

sectors such as energy, agriculture, education, transportation, communication and

mining.

The IDA credit is for 50

years, including 10 years grace

and if carries no interest but

has a small annual service charge of 0.5 per cent on undisbursed balances of the credit

and 0.75 per cent on disbursed balances, he said.

CSO: 3400/1497

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ZAMBIA

BRIEFS

AFRICAIRE AID—Africare and the department of roads in Eastern Province are

to improve roads in Chama district to boost agricultural development in the

area. Africare resident representative in Zambia Mr Kavin Lowther said in

Lusaka yesterday they had discussed the issue. Africare, which is financing a K1.2 million rice scheme in Chama, has in the past cooperated with

the local district council to improve some feeder roads in the region. Mr

Lowther said the poor condition of some key roads retarded agricultural

production as superviors could not reach the area. [as published]

[Excerpt] [Lusaka TIMES OF ZAMBIA in English 20 May 83 p 2]

CSO: 3400/1497 END