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roh dee zhuh

  • n  a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980
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  • Writing Wrongs: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose …
    Victoria Falls photographed in 1959. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose … the more things change, the more they stay the same, brings back memories of a Sunday in August 1959. My wife and I took a day trip in an old DC3 from our home in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia to the Victoria Falls located on the Zambezi River that separates Southern Rhodesia from Northern Rhodesia. Today the names ...
    June 16, 2013 - The Sierra Vista Herald
  • Ian Hassall’s New Book ‘Hamba Gashle’ Reveals the Inside Story of White Society in Colonial Southern Africa
    Ian Hassall’s edgy memoir describes his childhood in the Rhodesias, and then University in South Africa, between 1951 and 1970. It provides a vivid and disturbing depiction of childhood and family life set against racial exploitation, political change and the disintegration of his white community. (PRWeb June 14, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Hamba-Gashle/Ian ...
    June 14, 2013 - PRWeb
Quotes

  • Timothy Geithner in Hindustan Times
    My father gave me, among many wonderful things, the important gift of showing me the world as a child. He took us to live in Zambia and Rhodesia, then to India and Thailand, and from those places I saw America through the eyes of others,...
  • Margaret Thatcher in AFP
    The people of Rhodesia have the right to decide themselves who shall be their govt. and whether they approve the internal settlement,Thatcher wrote on a letter she received from Australian premier Malcolm Fraser that month.
  • Edgar Tekere in Institute for War and Peace Reporting
    But when Mugabe then agreed that ZANU should be absorbed into Bishop Abel Muzorewa's short-lived United African National Council, Tekere writes, "My first disagreement with Mugabe took place then [on their clandestine journey from Rhodesia to...

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