EDITOR – LAST week’s edition of The Patriot was very interesting.
In fact it doesn’t make sense for any black person in this country to say he or she misses Rhodesia, unless of course, if they were selling out.
We experienced Rhodesia and all its brutality.
We suffered at the hands of those mercenaries.
We were bitten by dogs, tortured, incarcerated and thousands of us were killed just because we are blacks and the whites saw us as inferior.
Abuse was rife in Rhodesia and I will never forget how we were kept in concentration camps as if we were monkeys.
Nowadays even as I walk along First Street in Harare, I always ask myself whether those who will be also strolling recall that it was taboo for a black person to be seen walking munaFirst Street.
I doubt if the youth of today understand this.
It is important for the older generation to keep reminding the nation, especially vechidiki that life under Rhodesia was hell.
If we do not do that, our children will continue to be bombarded with lies from our enemies that, “Smith was better and that life was better in Rhodesia.”
That’s exactly what they are being fed right now and as long as we don’t tell our own side of the story, Rhodesians will continue rubbishing our history.
Let no one fool you.
Rhodesia was hell.

Cde Cho
Harare