Is there a Che in the house?
Zim Standard RECENTLY, I watched with a jaundiced eye, the lavish, if a little obscene ceremony, during which combine harvesters, harrows, ploughs and other agricultural implements were unveiled. The country’s political glitterati were all there, with their hangers-on and camp followers. To say I almost puked at the opulence of the ceremony might be an exaggeration. But there was a bitter taste in my mouth. While all this glitz was being relayed live on TV, a number of supermarkets were shutting down in the wake of the price blitz. The live TV show, featured the president and his devout disciple, the governor of the central bank, I wondered how Ernesto Che Guevara would react to the solemnization of Zimbabwe’s creation in 1980 as a “revolution”. Certainly, he and Fidel Castro, with whom he fought for Cuba’s freedom from Fulgencio Batista in 1959, might have trouble identifying the result of the 15-year armed struggle against the white settlers as a revolutionary triumph – for whom? for
