Address to Young Zimbabweans: The Post-Independence Generation
Young people of Zimbabwe, I say to you all that the baton is now being passed on to us, let us not shrink from the responsibility. Let us gladly seize it and build a great future for us and our children. Failure to do so now would mean we have failed future generations, and that would be an unforgivable betrayal. Now is the time to stand up united in our diversity and defend the cause of justice, equality, freedom, human liberty, self-government and self-determination. We can no longer embrace the worn out ideas of some of our fathers who believe in tribal domination and subjugation. Now is the time for us to accept that in a new Zimbabwe, we are all equal, and Zimbabwe belongs to us all who live in it. No one of us has a better share or more legitimate claim to the country than the other. Let us summon that spirit of our forefathers who sweated and died in the fight for the liberation of this great country, who died together as Bakalanga, Vakaranga, amaNdebele, Manyika,...