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enemy, today you have become a friend and ally with the same national interest, loyalty, rights and duties as myself. If yester- day you hated me, today you cannot avoid the love that binds you to me and me to you. Our majority rule could easily turn into inhuman rule if we oppressed, persecuted or harassed those of us who do not look or think like the majority of us.” Destroying the Jewel of Africa Two other African heads of state sent Zimbabwe’s new leader words of encouragement. “You have the jewel of Africa in your hands,” President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and President Samora Machel of Mozambique noted. “Now look after it.” On a continent beset by problems, Zimbabwe was indeed conspicuous for its gleaming advantages. It had good infra- structure, including fine railways and roads. Its soil and cli- mate conditions were ideal for the cultivation of a wide variety of crops, and Zimbabwe boasted one of Africa’s most produc-

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