Answerable to the conquering class

Before independence, during the colonial period, this country and its people were owned by a foreign power.

When the British flag was hauled down during that memorable night from April 17 to 18 1980, it signified the end of foreign ownership, when the land between the Limpopo and the Zambezi, between the Nyanga mountains and the Kalahari was in possession of a conqueror.

By that I mean the colonial state, not individual citizens of foreign descent some of whom earned their citizenship by the valuable contribution they made.

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