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No need for Zim change - ANCYL
08/02/2005 19:13 - (SA)
Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's government was not a "regime" and there was, thus, no need for a "regime change" there, said African National Congress Youth League president Fikile Mbalula on Tuesday.
"Regimes are governments that are despicable, (that) don't allow political expression to anybody," he told students and academics at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Yet, there was an opposition in Zimbabwe and one which had been allowed to contest elections - in line with British demands for the democratisation of the government.
Changing the government would bring about only hostility and "entrench hostile engagement".
The ANCYL would not be the "shop steward" of those wanting a change of government, said Mbalula.
A more-pressing problem was that of polarisation between the rural poor and those living in urban areas.
It was this which had to be addressed "for the best interests of the Zimbabwe people themselves," he said.
- SAPA
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