ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that language is a tool that can effectively be used to inflict violence in a psychological way. Zimbabwe as a modern African state has for far too long attracted both regional and world attention, the magnitude of which is proportional neither to its “small” size nor relative global significance. Zimbabwe is a nation that has for successive generations, experienced psychological and political trauma and is, therefore, in dire need of healing in order to enjoy lasting peace. The foregoing exposition has preoccupied itself with the violence and politics of the old dispensation, whose political tincture and governance style was largely a function of Mugabe and Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front political whims. The lamentations and/or prayer for Zimbabwe by some clergyman pleading for psychological and spiritual healing of the nation in the aftermath of the 2008 election violence and callous butchery would summarise the trauma that the Old Dispensation made people go through.
