THIS week we look at various issues such as the El Nino phenomenon that threaten our development.
The country and others in the region will experience one of the worst droughts in recent years.
And thankfully we hear measures are being taken to ensure that the drought will have no devastating effects.
Government and various institutions have set in motion mechanisms to ensure no one starves.
While we have these serious issues, which are not in our direct control, to contend with, it is disheartening to note that there are elements among us pining for Rhodesia.
Elsewhere in the paper we write about the mischievous article in one of the so-called independent papers which talks about the good times in Rhodesia.
What is most frightening and disturbing is that these papers are read by our young and innocent who wait on us, the elders, to inform them about our history.
Thus it is being careless and irresponsible to talk of a beautiful Rhodesia in which Africans were happy and thrived.
Would an estimated
30 000 sons and daughters of Zimbabwe have died to dislodge the Ian Smith regime if it was good?
To state that rulers of an independent and self-determining Zimbabwe have destroyed the country more than colonialists did is an insult to the very history of the country.
The claim is an insult to every son and daughter of the soil who laid down their lives to free Zimbabwe from colonial bondage.
Many, today, bear deep injuries, physical and psychological wounds inflicted by Rhodesians.
Whipping up emotions by fooling our young that Rhodesia was beautiful does not serve the nation.
Even quislings should know better.
There should be limits to selling out and betrayal.
We should not be spitting on the graves of our departed heroes and heroines to please Western handlers.
Every African, every black person must have a modicum of self-respect that will not be compromised or awed by things white.
Rhodesia, for some of us who experienced it, was not only a bitter but brutal and degrading period.
For example the so-called beautiful and clean streets of Rhodesia that they love to laud and glorify were not meant for Africans, walking on these streets elicited the wrath of Rhodies.
In Rhodesia, education was not for all.
The few Africans who went to school only got enough education to be efficient tools of the whites.
Good jobs, higher positions and living wages were a preserve for Rhodesians.
Africans were forced off their prime lands and driven to inhabitable dry areas
What illusions are harboured by people who believe blacks could be beneficiaries of the Rhodesian economy meant to serve whites?
What claim did Africans have on Rhodesian economic activities?
The saddest thing is that these blacks ready to do the bidding of the whites know the truth, the painful truth but for trinkets are ready to pervert it.
Thinking of personal gains, they continue serving our erstwhile colonisers, unashamedly.
Indeed this poison, the glorification of Rhodesia, must be destroyed especially for the sake of our young.
Our young must know that there is nothing to envy in the dead and buried Rhodesia
Life was ugly for blacks in Rhodesia.
Living conditions were harsh.
From 1890 when the Union Jack was raised in the country, Africans knew no joy or prosperity.
Happiness and self-determination only came in 1980, after a protracted liberation struggle.
The liberation struggles, the Chimurengas were waged not for fun but by a burning desire to get rid of Rhodesians who brutalised and dehumanised Africans.