COMMENT: Let’s savour our independence

Sunday News Zimbabwe

COMMENT: Let’s savour our independence

ON Thursday, Zimbabwe will clock 44 years of independence from the brutal, oppressive and racist colonial rule, a development that set the country on a path of self-determination and that calls for massive celebrations as a nation.  Zimbabwe as a nation was born at midnight on 18 April 1980 when the country’s flag was raised soon after the lowering of the colonial Union Jack where there was almost a delirium among the 40 000 plus people that had…