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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 36 No. 12. 6 June 1973

[Introduction]

Map of Southern Africa featuring liberated areas, military zones of action and Bantu reserves

Reports from Rhodesia indicate that the Zimbabwe national liberation movement has launched a full-scale guerrilla attack on the Smith regime.

The armed struggle in Rhodesia began on April 28 seven years ago. For several years the fighting was limited to raids across the Zambesi river from Zambia, and more recently across the north-eastern border from Mozambique, but since December last year the joint military command of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) has spread throughout the country.

Simon Linney reported in the April 19 issue of the Nation Review that the guerrillas had attacked areas to the northwest, north, east and south of the capital Salisbury, and at least one sally right into the heart of the city.