The War Continues – 1977
Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (19 June 1917 – 1 July 1999) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary, guerrilla leader and trade unionist, who founded and led the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) from 1961, as well as Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) forces.
Extracts from an interview with Joshua Nkomo – President of ZAPU – 1977
John Vorster is being portrayed in the Western press as the key figure in the solution of the Zimbabwe problem. How do you see Vorster’s role in Zimbabwe?
“How could you see the role of a hyena in relation to that of a jackal? Can a hyena in fact act in a different way from a jackal? They both eat the flesh of other animals, and he, (John) Vorster, and the jackal, (Ian) Smith, are two sides of the same coin.”
“If the hyena says to a goat, ‘I will save you from the jackal’, you cannot believe it. Can any goat believe this? How much more can we, the people, expect Vorster as a force for change when he is himself a very big force for the maintenance of the status quo. When Kissinger was in Libertas discussing with Vorster, Vorster’s forces were shooting young children, women and men hardly a mile away in Pretoria, and who in this world can believe that Vorster will change when in South Africa men of Black skins are supposed to be jumping out of windows while in detention. They do not do it when they are free.”
“We are asked to believe that they do th
