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MWANGA: "But while your brothers and sisters of the Patriotic Front inside Zimbabwe are fighting and dying to overcome to the cowardly, colonialist oppressors, they are already planning and getting ready for the noble and constructive task of building a new, free and proud Zimbabwe nation, as soon as the oppressors' nationalist lackeys and treacherous supporters have been finally and utterly defeated. I, and all my fellow Tanzanians, hope and pray that total liberation will soon be achieved and that (indistinct) fellow citizens of Zimbabwe will then quickly succeed in building up a happier and a more just society, and in developing the resources of Zimbabwe, including manpower, for the benefits of all of these people, instead of the interests of an oppressive minority alone."




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Background: In Tanzania, a five-day seminar on plans to develop manpower in Rhodesia after black majority rule comes in, was recently held in the capital Dar es Salaam. The first such conference before a country actually achieved independence, it was sponsored by the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front guerrilla movement and various international educational agencies, including the United Nations. It dealt with many issues concerning education and employment opportunities for the country's black population. The Vice-President of the Zimbabwe African National union, Mr. Simon Muzenda, represented the Patriotic Front, and was among those who heard Tanzanian Manpower Minister Abel Mwanga speak of his government's hopes for a swift hand-over of power to Zimbabwe's black majority.