Since Zimbabwean independence in 1980, opposing views of African police and soldiers during the colonial era have emerged that are usually influenced by the memory of the independence war of the 1970s. Those who continue to celebrate white Rhodesia tend to see African security force members as loyal and noble, yet slightly primitive, agents of progress and defenders of Western civilization in Africa. Former RAR commanding officer W. A. Godwin wrote that “every soldier in the army was a volunteer and it had always been so. This could hardly be said of those who followed Mugabe and Nkomo. … Throughout this Rhodesia stood alone, and our masodjas [African soldiers] stayed with us to the bitter end.” Those sympathetic to the African nationalist liberation struggle, however, usually perceive African police and soldiers as “sell-outs” or traitors who were particularly cruel to their own people because of misplaced ambition to please their European masters. The journalist Geoffrey Nyarota, after an incident in 1977 when, as a young teacher, he was abused by white and black police, writes, “[I] realized that I hated them with a passion. I decided that I also hated all the uniformed Support Unit and RAR men surrounding me.” When a captured insurgent pointed out alleged nationalist agents in the hope of securing lenient treatment from security forces, “overzealous soldiers of the RAR and Support Unit manhandled the perplexed villagers and dragged them to join the growing group of ‘terrorist collaborators.’ …