Talk:Chimurenga
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I think it's a bit misleading to say that Chimurenga is a musical style and then a term for the revolution. Chimurenga is 1) The shona word for struggle. 2) A title for Zimbabwe's two major revolutionary wars, and 3) A description of musical style. If I get some more information on the revolution, perhaps I'll make a page on that.
Obviously, there is more money in music then revolution, so that's what one would see browsing the web.
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[edit] Controversy about land holdings
I am not actually happy with the phrasing of the article that the vast majority of the most productive land is held by a small minority of white farmers. As a matter of facts that has changed already by the beginning of the 1990s with the huge migration of white Zimbabweans out of Zimbabwe. It is a matter of facts that the colonial social, economical structures have rotted away due to Mugabe's regime. One might just compare figures: by 1980 before the end of Rhodesia GDP growth was 10% p.A. and inflation was under 3% with the Rhodesian currency having been always on par with the pound sterling. Now there is stagflation and the nation is mostly living of its capital and it is well know that even the UN is aware of Mugabe's regime and surpression of free elections without intimidation of voters. Further it is a well know fact that Mugabe never gave any of the land reaquired from white farmers to Zimbabwean farmers but mostly to his own supporters.
Hence I change back the article again. I would be happy for any discussion about that but not just a simple revert back! Thank you.
[edit] zimbabwe/schmimbabwe
As with much of Africa, the borders of the country were drawn without reference to tribal boundaries and deeply held tribal animosities. So the country locks up togather two impacable enemies: the Matabele and the amaShona. The place should be partitioned in to two countries - but I digress. The Mata/Ndebele invaded across the Limpopo and drove the shona north. Then they became mostly rural farmers. After the second Chimurenga, the power-holding Shona have turned on the Ndebele in the south and massacred them. They and their cadres have also stolen white farms and black farms and turned then over to untrained Shona cronies and squatters who do not know how to care for the land. The insane policies of Mugabe and his cadres (whic he is pleased to call a third chimurenga) are leadign to a true fourth chimuranga, during which we will oust these parasites and usher in Democratic governement at last. Signed by bulawayo-boy
[edit] Bad article
This piece, I'm sure, has been written by an official in the pay of the ZANU (PF) government - if you can call them that - in Harare. I've tried to roll it back a bit, though no doubt I have let my own bias show through... in which case by all means tidy it up. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rhoderick (talk • contribs) 14:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] ? did this happen?
"Upon learning of the death of Mlimo, Cecil Rhodes boldly walked unarmed into the native's stronghold and persuaded the impi to lay down their arms. The First Chimurenga thus ended on October 1897 and Matabeleland and Mashonaland were later renamed Rhodesia"
I've seen no evidence of this ever, please explain your source of this information —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rhoderick (talk • contribs) 14:16, 24 March 2007 (UTC).
- It happened. I've added a source reference to the article. Ctatkinson 21:30, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
