Havent we already got a president who has links with the British?

It is unfortunate that the people who need to answer them would refuse to read this paper if it was offered to them, but I certainly wont be heard if I dont speak out now.

I would like to examine the credentials of the person who is reported as saying: As a person who fought for this country, I would be insulted if someone who has links with the British who we were fighting during the war became president.

My first question would be: Which country were you fighting for? because I find it hard to believe that a real freedom fighter didnt know who he was fighting against. But then perhaps he was fighting on the other side. Every schoolchild used to know that the war was fought between Ian Smiths army on one side, which was in rebellion against Britain, and ZIPRA and ZANLA on the other. Where were the British then? And when was Soko, the vocal war veteran, in the four months when Smith and the miscellaneous members of the 1979 Zimbabwe-Rhodesia regime had surrendered to the British, who supervised an election and handed over power to the winner?

Which raises a second question. Have the war vet Soko and all the others who read from the same script forgotten that the winners of that election were the party of the man who still occupies State House? Havent we already got a president who has links with the British? He did shake hands with Prince Charles and the temporary British governor Lord Soames and accepted the symbols of power from them. He also accepted quite a lot of money from them to help the first land reform programme.

If Soko doesnt know this, he certainly has a president now whose history he doesnt know.

And if he is so opposed to any connection with the British, how could he have accepted the land he apparently now occupies under a resettlement scheme which they helped to fund?

Now, Im not claiming the British are angels, but we need to give even the Devil his due.That ends my questions about history. Now I have a few about biology.

Are war veterans human beings? As far as I know, all human beings die sooner or later. There cannot be many veterans of that war, which ended 30 years ago, who are less than 50 years old. If they are human, how much longer can they live? Have Soko and his chorus got any suggestion for what should happen after the last person who carried a gun in that war (which the Old Man himself didnt do) lays down his or her mortal body and goes to face the final judgement?

If the ruinous state we were in 18 months ago is any indication, everyone else is likely to have starved to death or emigrated by then, so maybe Soko isnt thinking that far ahead.