Not
Too Late For Zimbabwe/Rhodesia by J. Parnell McCarter
It is not too late for Zimbabwe/Rhodesia to do what
it should have done in transitioning from the old white-ruled Rhodesia. What should have happened then, and what
should happen now, is that Zimbabwe/Rhodesia should be partitioned into 3
primary ethnic homeland nations:
Each of these should be explicitly Biblical
Christian, and over course of time it should be hoped that they each adopt the
Westminster Standards as their official doctrinal standards.
I recommend that such separate homeland nations
enter into a Treaty with the other ethnic homelands existing in what is now the
area of Zimbabwe. Such treaty could
allow for tariff-free commerce and free transportation among each other, so as
not unduly to impede commercial enterprise and friendly relations among each
other. The Treaty could also spell out
the procedures for further peaceful partitions, should future conditions
warrant such. Finally, the Treaty could
guarantee that within each homeland nation there would be no differentiation of
civil or voting rights on the basis of race or ethnicity among the citizens of
each, according to Biblical norms of justice.
This would help to ensure no one would be treated unjustly as defined by
scriptural standards simply on the basis of race and ethnicity within any of
the three main ethnic homeland nations.
The current unified Zimbabwe, effectively all ruled
by the Shona tribe under the dictatorship of Robert
Mugabe, is fundamentally flawed. It is a moral and economic disaster, pushed by
the misguided policy of the USA and the United Kingdom.