Street mural exposes Zim’s divided society

BY BARNABAS TICHA
THE Shona and the Ndebele are Zimbabwe’s two most dominant ethnic groups. Explaining the ever-present tension between them, historian Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni points to the abuse of the post-colonial state by the ruling Shona-dominated government “in its drive to destroy Ndebele particularism”.

He explains: “This sets in motion the current Matabeleland politics of alienation, resentment and grievance.”

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