The man who once said  "I don't believe in black majority rule over Rhodesia, not in a thousand years "  
is now gone.


Ian Smith

1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7104552.stm

2) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1136865.stm

panafrican:


The man who once said "I don't believe in black majority rule over Rhodesia, not in a thousand years "
is now gone.


Ian Smith

1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7104552.stm

2) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1136865.stm

i believe the man was prophesising coz, there has never been black majority rule in the then Rhodesia. When you visit the then Rhodesia that's when u would understand. The people of this land are still under colony. Life was better when he used to emplement the likes of the UDIs, unlike the likes of POSA etc that are making life tougher for the black majority of the then Rhodesia.

He died unrepentant, Many of his political decisions and policies were disastrous for this country," noted David Coltart, one of Zimbabwe's longest serving human rights lawyers, who as a teenager was drafted into Ian Smith's police force during the end of the civil war. "The draconian legislation passed under his tenure as prime minister in the 1960s and 1970s and the unilateral declaration of independence announced by him in November 1965 were the root cause of the civil war that erupted in then Rhodesia in the 1970s. Those policies also radicalized black nationalist movements and directly spawned the violent and fascist rule of Zanu-PF today. I think history will show that his policies contributed to the disastrous state that Zimbabwe is in today."