Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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15 February 2009
13:4715515#21
Bern - you are totaly right on this. What has happened in Rhodesia since Mugabe gained power is truly tragic for the Zimbabwe. Mugabe's rule merely changed one form, of inequality for another, instead of a priviledged white minority with a small but growing black middle class, you ended up with a Shona oppression of other tribes such as the Matabele including the whites and starvation.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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15 February 2009
17:1615520#22
Zimbabwe is a tragedy whichever way you look at it.
Rhodesia didn't have aparthied - I remember when I was there in 1975, going to the "Police Club" in Salisbury and I wasn't allowed in because I didn't have a tie on - the standard of dress was either a shirt and tie, or a safari suit; I just had a shirt, no tie. There were many africans (black and white ones) in there either wearing a safari suit or shirt and tie.
I'd like to add that the inequality was only (or mainly) the vote.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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15 February 2009
20:1315526#23
i still call it rhodesia, i feel sure that cecil does too.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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15 February 2009
20:4315530#24
I'm sure he does Howard - he's buried just outside Bulawayo, up at "World's View".
We visited his cottage where he died in Muizenburg near Cape Town. There's also a very impressive statue/tribute to him on the outskirts of Cape Town looking over Cape Town itself - amazing.
Roger