The Editor, Sir:

During the time when Zimbabwe was struggling for independence from white minority rule, Bob Marley did a song called Africans A Liberate Zimbabwe. In a verse of this song he asked, "Now you get what you want do you want more?" The back up vocalist in return answers "yes."

In another of his songs he quoted a speech by Emperor Haile Selassie which suggested we Africans will fight if we find it necessary for we know we shall win for we are confident in the victory of good over evil.

From media reports I notice it's said that Zimbabwe's land battle has gotten bloody and that President Robert Mugabe refused to tell Zimbabwean blacks to leave white farms that they have occupied in recent weeks.

Now here is what I would like to know, what were those blacks fighting for during the time leading up to their independence? And, if they say they want more, wasn't the writing on the wall that they would come for more?

So why blame President Mugabe for this fracas when it was foretold that the Africans would fight if they find it necessary?

I am, etc.,

ALLAN MARTIN

(Namibia)

Laws Street

Kingston C.S.O.