Very well written. As a former Rhodesian army type beguiled by "Uncle Bob" into continuing my career into the ZNA and doing a lot to train several battalions of the new army (the more formal British styled part), I recall my amazement that he seemed to be so reasonable a person when he first came to power and then saw - first hand - how he set about using the elements of ZIPRA and Former Rhodesian army in the ZNA to destroy each other and thereby entrench himself as "President for life" exactly as Ian Smith (and many others) had predicted. It was never about the "people" it was always just about him and you have to admire not only how well he fooled the West, the East and the white minority long enough to entrench himself so deeply he could not be uprooted, but how he also fooled the "clever blacks" into thinking that there would be a wonderful future in a "free" Zimbabwe. The reality is grotesque; like many "leaders" in Africa who admire and seek to emulate him. The Big Joke.