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AP reports:
The felling of Zimbabwe's famed colonial-era "Hanging Tree" is reviving legends and superstitions and has many believing it signals a new era for this troubled southern African nation, whose hardline 87-year-old president is in the winter of his long rule.
The fall of the tree came on the same day that President Robert Mugabe, suffering from ill health, marked the country's national tree planting and reforestation campaign by planting a tree in the second city of Bulawayo.
It also coincided with the annual congress of Mugabe's party, its last major gathering before crucial elections next year. The vote is meant to end a fragile coalition government with the former opposition of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai formed after disputed elections in 2008 that were plagued by violence and allegations of vote rigging.
"It's got to be a sign something big is going to happen," street vendor Mathias Vinyu told The Associated Press of the tree fall.
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Something big is really going to happen in Zimbabwe.
All the white settlers, every vestige of them will be removed from Zimbabwe along with the traitors who support them. Mugabe will become the sole leader of Zimbabwe once again and when it is time for his successor he or she will be even more black conscious and would be practising their African religion and wearing their traditional African clothes to all governmental meetings locally and internationally, shedding the religion and the wear of the former slave masters who are white supremists.
Why on Earth would any black man/woman in their right mind, want to practise the religion (Christianity) of their former slave masters or even wear their clothes. Obviously these wicked enslavers knew nothing about God.