Rhodesian movements outlawed

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33814, 10 April 1975, Page 8

Rhodesian movements outlawed

I <N Z.P A.Kvuter—Cojwrisjht i LUSAKA The Zambian Government . has outlawed by dec two Rhodesian ■Tibera'i.m , movements, the ZimbabuAfrican National Inion the Zimbabwe Africa: • People's Union The decree, stoned h\ Mi rt istei Aaron Milner) > :h <; b : ‘ organisations are Iwing •. for purposes preiudici.il t. ithe maintenance of peace, order and good g.iveinmeni The rival ZA N I and Z.A.P.U. merged under African National Council last iDecember, but alter the arrest of the A.N.C.'s prc>i dent, the Rev Ndabaningi Sithole, by the Rhodesan Government early last month, the Z.A.N.L'. again began issuing its own otiicia. ■ statements. After the death of the 'Z.A.N.U. chairman. Mr Herbert Chitepo, in a landmine explosion tn Lusaka [three weeks ago, and the ‘subsequent detention of many I Z.A.N.U. members for (questioning. Mr Milnerissued a warning that the nationalist movements which had agreed to merge with the A.N.C. would have their offices closed. The Government has also declared the International Society for Krishna Con sciousness (the Hare Krishna sect) unlawful, and says that its leaders have already been deported.