World: Frustrated Revolutionary

A pointed sense of irony trailed the murder charge lodged against Manpower Minister Edgar Tekere last week in Salisbury: it was the first act of personal violence ever attributed to the former guerrilla revolutionary, even during seven bloody years of civil war. The tough, radical Tekere, 43, had spent his entire adult life—including 15 years in prison or exile—in the struggle to bring black majority rule to his native Zimbabwe, but his role was never that of a fighter in the field. Rather, he was an exclusively political operator who specialized in recruiting, motivating and directing from a desk the tactical...

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