Even the Smith regime was trying the same things. They were banning songs.
People are just impatient.
They want change and the musicians are putting that through very eloquently - more eloquently than the opposition. It is not soothing. But even before him, music played an important role in the political life of Zimbabwe. The Zanu Freedom fighters drew on the country's cultural tradition and used songs as morale boosters and rallying cries. But at the time the people of Zimbabwe embraced the word to mean what they thought it meant - freedom fighters.