Rhodesians

The irony is Renamo was formed by Rhodesians to destabilise Mozambique during Zimbabwe’s liberation war.

He would later work closely with the same Rhodesians who killed his mother in integrating the three armies — Rhodesian, Zipra and Zanla — just as he worked with his Zanu PF jailers and torturers.

In a research paper titled, Poison in the Rhodesian Bush War, Colm Wittenberg highlights that Rhodesians were aware of the value attached to cattle in the African society.

Not only do they now exploit their own kind and masses but they have now got to a stage where they shoot and lock them up in prisons just like the Rhodesians did.

Rhodesians were the enemy and ZANU-PF were the saviours who could do no wrong.

The second reason Rhodesians would use anthrax was that by destroying food stocks in rural areas, the original goals of ‘Operation Turkey’ would be enhanced.

The urban idiot remains trapped in this race to be like and live like the Rhodesians.

I was imprisoned for 11 years by the Rhodesians so there is nothing to fear," Mugabe said.

Once stereotyped as “white Rhodesians” who enjoy disproportionate economic influence, the English-speaking minority is increasingly diverse, with significant pockets of poverty, Jedwab said.

According to every published finding, whites were in favour of the settlement, and Rhodesians of mixed or Asian background generally pleased, while black reaction was resoundingly negative.

After the Rhodesians' overseas recruiting campaign for English-speakers, started in 1974, proved successful, they began recruiting French-speakers as well, in 1977.

At the time, some Rhodesians said the still embittered history between the British-dominated Rhodesia and the Afrikaner -dominated South Africa partly led South African government to withdraw its aid to Rhodesia.

By this time, the need to cut a deal was apparent to most Rhodesians, but not to all.

Rhodesians of all races served on behalf of the United Kingdom during the two World Wars.

The Rhodesians now offered more concessions, but those concessions, focused on reaching an "internal settlement" with moderate black leaders, were insufficient to end the war.