EDITOR – MY FRIEND from the Diaspora sent me something very interesting on facebook.
I thought I should share it with you dear patriots.
It is an advertisement of Rhodesia back in day when the white settlers colonised Zimbabwe.
This advertisement I’m sure was flighted in Britain calling for whites to get ‘cheap land’ in Rhodesia suitable for farming all crops, from maize to cotton and all fruits. The message they were sending to their fellow whites was that the country they had colonised (Zimbabwe) had plenty of sunshine for 300 days, millions of acres of land and as they put it “it is a splendid cattle country.”
So there you have it.
Cecil John Rhodes’ British South Africa Company was already selling our land to their kith and kin and had the audacity to call it cheap land.
Surely was this not daylight robbery?
Rhodes and his criminals came here and took our fertile land by force and turned us into labourers in our own land, on top of that oppressed us in all sorts of manners.
Was that fair?
Should we then be blamed for taking our land back?
And yes, by force, just the way they stole it from us.
What is so special about the whiteman that makes him untouchable?
He can do all sorts of things to us blacks, but when we retaliate we are criticised. I am glad we have managed to change that here in Zimbabwe and that is what I call real independence.
We are no longer scared of the whiteman because we have learnt his ways and now understand that when he came to Africa, he did not come in good faith.
He came to steal and kill.
That is why we took our land back here in Zimbabwe and distributed it to the black majority.
We have no regrets.
After all, that is why we went to war, for our land that had been stolen.

Cde Vera
Harare