Matabeleland since the Amnesty

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Title:	Matabeleland since the Amnesty
Author:	Ranger, Terence O.
Year:	1989
Periodical:	African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:	88
Issue:	351
Period:	April
Pages:	161-173
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zimbabwe
Subjects:	political stability Development and Technology Politics and Government nationalism
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/722716
Abstract:	Text of an address given to the Britain-Zimbabwe Society, in association with The Royal Commonwealth Society and The Royal African Society, in October 1988. The author tells about his visit to Southern Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, in May 1988, when the unitary agreement between ZANU/PF and ZAPU had been signed, and particularly about what he learned about the brutalities of 1983 and 1985, about the dissidents, and about the 'crisis of expectations' and the optimism which now exist in Matabeleland. A few updating comments are added, and the author concludes that, despite all the present problems and those that will arise in the future, unity and amnesty in Matabeleland have indeed inaugurated a new era; a second 'miracle' of reconciliation to match that with the whites in 1980.