EDITOR – NOW that the British are coming out in the open about their atrocities in the colonial era, is it not time that they also compensated us as Zimbabweans?
I doubt if there is any difference between the British and Rhodesians because they all originate from England.
After all, it is not a secret that up to 1923 the British South Africa Company (BSAC) formed and owned by that racist and ‘homosexual’ Cecil John Rhodes was ruthlessly ‘ruling’ a territory they had stolen from our forefathers.
They came here as the Pioneer Column pretending to be saviours yet they were actually thieves who were bent on looting our resources while enslaving us.
It is clear that we as black people were victims and these white guys were not only brutal to us, but even went to the extent of murdering innocent people just because they wanted to control us.
The innocent people who were massacred by the whitemen in their thousands at Nyadzonia, Chimoio, Tembwe and Chibondo among other areas had done absolutely nothing wrong.
They were not even soldiers, but simple civilians seeking refuge from a war that the whitemen knew he would certainly lose.
I am sure the atrocities that the whitemen committed in this country can be classified as outright genocides or crimes against humanity that the whitemen tried to sweep under the carpet for years.
But then some of us never forget and we will continue to say it over and over again that we must be compensated as well.
Kenya has been compensated, Jamaica wants to be compensated and so does Malawi among other numerous countries that were colonised by the British because these white guys cannot go unpunished.
They have to face their colonial sins and we as Zimbabweans say we must be compensated too.
Actually it’s long overdue.

Murongiwa
Harare