Southern Africa: Zimbabwe Has Come of Age

Today is our 44th anniversary of independence, the day Zimbabweans achieved freedom, and did so under an elected Government, the double achievement being important.

The freedom meant we became the owners of our own destiny, that we would decide what sort of country we wanted and could build that nation, without others deciding what was good for us, or building a different country where a small settler minority owned the natural resources, half the land, the better half, and all the rights to…