Are you celebrating Rhodesian Independence Day, /pol/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUqViUTAJz4
Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlwjo8EIfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqp6FBjOVzg
"Although there are no flowers
and a victory parade,
Prancin' through the city
in a fancy motorcade
In God's eyes you're a hero,
and I know the time will come
when the good things will get back to you,
Troopie boy, you won!"
>The American-Southern Africa Council: A National Testament to Rhodesia 5/17/67
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-LodWGv-M
Listen to the whole thing. there so much gold in this:
-The hypocrisy of the UN and the peace-loving types
-Rhodesia as a bolster against atheistic communism
(one of the best essays on the net. Was written in the early 70s when Rhodesia was still trying to survive)
Requiem for Rhodesia
Urge neither charity nor shame to me:
Uncharitably with me have you dealt,
And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd... I have set my life upon a cast, and I will stand the hazard of the die”.
-- Shakespearehttp://www.cwporter.com/rhodesia.html
REALLY wish I could post entire thing here:The Rhodesian Railways train stops for water in the desert. Crowds of ragged Africans mob the train, running hysterically to any white face in the window. “Please one penny, baasjie (bossie), please give me just one penny”, whimpers a filthy child with a swollen belly and bony limbs, barely old enough to walk. Someone throws him a coin. He is beaten viciously and the penny snatched.
In the distance stand thousands of windowless tin shacks, like tool sheds, against a boiling plain after a freezing night; this is a government housing project. Hundreds of other shacks built of trash, paper, and bits of tin, have rocks on the roof to keep them from blowing away. No visible paved roads; few roads of any kind. Scores of teenage prostitutes and hoodlums lounge amongst the filth, coming on board the train to use the toilets. Trash everywhere. Not a white man in sight. Is this Rhodesia?
No. This is Botswana, Black Africa.
Bush, desert, now trees, an unchanging landscape of monotony and misery.
Suddenly a modern gasoline station appears: like a laboratory experiment showing the effect of an invisible line drawn on a map. Suddenly the roads are paved; the Africans are well dressed and muscular, walking about seemingly unconcerned. No shacks. No trash. No begging.
This is Plumbtree. A sign appears:
YOU ARE NOW ENTERING RHODESIA
This is where blacks come illegally in search of work.... http://www.cwporter.com/rhodesia.html
Memories of Rhodesia: "What a Time" :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbM_0hRTSiA&list=PLh-DWnajWRG2IWXE3OZzguzlfwiZI2pLU&index=2
>>55454226
God bless Strom Thurmond
>It should be noted that Rhodesia, unlike South Africa, is not a country of racial apartheid. There are 13 Africans in the 65-member legislature. There could be more if the two radical African parties, Zapu and Zanu, had not demanded a one-man, one-vote system and urged a boycott of elections until this was established. Under the present system, the franchise is limited by property and educational qualifications. Fifty members are elected on an A roll, with higher qualifications; fifteen on a B roll, where the qualifications are lower.
https://fee.org/freeman/some-lessons-of-rhodesia/
>>55455748
>These friends and other Rhodesians I met reported that the state of public order had very much improved since UDI (unilateral declaration of independence). This, so they told me, was because previous governments had been weak on law enforcement. The African political groups, Zapu and Zanu, had taken advantage of this situation to run a fierce competition for recruiting new members at high entrance fees. Europeans were not much endangered; but law-abiding Africans who refused to pay were apt to have crude bombs hurled through their windows; their thatched huts were set on fire and the occupants beaten and left for dead. Tribal chiefs (most Rhodesian Africanslive under the traditional tribal organization) were stabbed, shot, strangled, and clubbed.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/8237-ian-smith-and-the-fall-of-rhodesia
Good article on the history of Rhodesia and the Bush War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wybow3G7E8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkUJeB0Gb2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i27hOVni0IA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW5SD_NYqBQ
If Rhodesia is so great why did they threaten archaeologists and undertake a campaign of mass censorship of historians when Great Zimbabwe was being researched?
>>55452925
No, /k/ faggot. Why are you even here? You guys hate us anyways.
>>55459259
Because they were pushing the unfounded claim that sub-saharan Africans built it in order to prop up Communist African propaganda.
Celebrated earlier today
>>55452925
my grampa comes from rhodesia and during the bush war killed lots of kaffir terrorists
>>55459348
That's not true
