1. By Own Correspondent- The Military Commander, Comrade Tongogara is always flighted on television expressing that it is not the whites he fought, but a system of repression
   1. What could have made/ what can still make  Zimbabwe self sufficient.

Training in agriculture and acquisition of a virgin plot of land with agricultural extension officers working with the black and white commercial farmers as the monitors on the spot

1.2  It is never too late to make amends.

1.2.1. Implement the one man one farm/half a farm policy

1.2.2  Make the conservation agriculture farming accessible to all interested

12.3 Government to afford commercial farmers the opportunity to install an irrigation system payable through annual  premiums after harvesting 

1.2.4 Government should make the farmers sign a contract indicating the amount they sell to the local grain marketing board contributing towards strategic grain reserves and the quantity for export

1.2.4.1 During the year when farmers  fail to meet the targets, they spend their winter months studying face to face or virtually (whichever is possible) and applying their knowledge on their plots

1.2.5. Government engages district construction workers  to put up beautiful houses for farm workers and hostels  for students  who are able to offer their services during the holidays, thereby earn their fees and upkeep.

Lawyers like Chitepo described as an African Nationalist in exile and chairman of the War Council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe indeed fought against  human rights abuse through the courts, the abuse mostly perpetrated by some non-black leaders on the local black population. If he were alive today he would faint  on witnessing perpetration of violence by black leaders on their own people.

It would be assumed as correct that  war heroes fought against  a  system of unequal distribution of resources like land,  opportunities  like employment and stifling freedom of expression punishable  through imprisonment. Why then forty years after gaining political independence, are the following unpalatable scenarios  still witnessed in Zimbabwe among many,

1. unequal distribution of land even after the ‘land reform?’
2.  violence, manifested in imprisonment for expressing free thought on the unpalatable status which when addressed, should afford Zimbabwe sustainable development leaving the country standing tall and be truly counted as a sovereign nation amongst nations of the global village?

Food for Thought!