Hell upon Ian Smith

Friday, November 23, 2007

Ian Douglas Smith died yesterday in Cape Town and his family must be mourning their loss. We cannot fault them. Perhaps to them he was a loving person. It is difficult to believe that racists also have feelings.

To us, no amount of decency or modesty would inhibit us from saying what we feel about a man whose policies made life unbearable for our people in Zimbabwe and in the sub-region.

His racist wars affected many in the region. Smith was apartheid's Siamese twin. The spill-offs of the Smith war on terror waged against the black majority in Zimbabwe caused terror and agony.

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