26/08/2026
In 1984, Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo warned us: "A nation can win freedom without its people becoming free." 42 years later, this has become our daily reality in Zimbabwe. The heartbreaking videos of rural and peri-urban houses being demolished prove that independence did not bring true liberation. We just changed the skin color of the oppressor. What is the benefit of being a Zimbabwean if owning a home on your ancestral soil is treated as a crime?
A black government forces ordinary black families to sleep in the freezing bushes while their life savings are turned to rubble. We were taught that the Rhodesian regime was the ultimate enemy of the black majority. But action speaks louder than words. If Ian Smith’s administration was entirely merciless, thousands of our grandmothers wouldn't own the stable, brick-and-mortar houses they still hold in Harare today.
The propaganda has completely run out of road. ZANU-PF has ruled alone since 1980. They mobilized the masses to die for the soil, promising that Zimbabwe would be the one country where land belonged to the people. Yet today, they chase citizens into the bushes, calling their homes "illegal". Shame on the second republic.
