Cricket and Politics Mix - Australia Won't Tour Zimbabwe
- 1 comment
- 741 reads
Zimbabwe holds a special place in the hearts of most West Indians. Just as West Indians were keenly interested in the struggle for racial equality in South Africa, so were they interested in the struggle for liberation in Zimbabwe. So much so that Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley sang at the Independence of Zimbabwe in 1980. Then he was celebrating Zimbabwe's independence and the election of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe after Ian Smith's minority rule in then colonial Rhodesia. How prophetic has Marley's words in his song Zimbabwe become:
To divide and rule could only tear us apart;
In everyman chest, there beats a heart.
So soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionaries;
And I don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.
read more »
