fact the majority of soldiers serving in the rhodesian army at the time of the bush war were black fact the zipra zanla forces never overcame the rhodesian forces the majority of internal engagements were short sharp firefights the usual result being either the complete annihilation or dispersal of the terrorist groups involved the external engagements or camp attacks always resulted in overwhelming victories for the rhodesian forces fact zipra zanla were both left wing organisations with full backing from far left marxists states fact zipra zanla forces deployed within rhodesia preferred to not engage the rhodesian armed forces and this was also not their role as operating in small groups of up to men without any form of air support they could not take on the security on anything approaching equal terms they were deployed primarily to politicise the rural black population usually by terrorising those who did not fully support of their parent organisation into doing so and to destabilise the economy as much as possible by attacking soft targets fact neither zipra or zanla overcame as you put it the rhodesian army possibly the conventionally trained zipra troops who were held back in zambia and never committed to the bush war could have defeated the rhodesian forces in open battle considering that towards the end of the war these conventionally trained troops were far better equipped than the rhodesian forces but as nkomo never gave the go order we will never know by the sounds of things though you would not be happy to see anything that is not politically correct no matter how factual