Zimbabwe 2011 — dreams of tomorrow

As we approach the 31st independence anniversary, it is striking that we still hear eloquently the crying winds of pre-1979 as if we have not come of age.

The tone and language that we have chosen to explain the causes of the unacceptable condition that the majority of Zimbabweans find themselves in today, suggests that we still want to explain the present through the prism of the colonial era often refusing to take responsibility for our own actions and inaction.

Black and white children have been born since 1980, their future has evolved, they have no personal knowledge of the colonial cultural, political and economic experience, and we all thought that our common future held whispers of dreams of tomorrow and not the sorrow that has come with the tomorrow that now is nearly 31 years old.

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