Word: rhodesia
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...images that lodged in the British heart were of the Queen Mum singing gaily as a chauffeur whizzed her through Rhodesia in 1960, pottering around her beloved garden in baggy trousers, following the fortunes of her racehorses on a telephone results service used by bookies...
TIME: Have you had any contact with the Zimbabwean government? KHAN: Yes. [Amnesty] has worked on Zimbabwe for a long time, and Rhodesia before that, so we have a long history of engagement in the area. At one point we'd even adopted Mr. Mugabe as one of our prisoners and worked on his case. But he has not been very positive toward Amnesty and has accused us of interference...
...foreign exchange to pay. Zimbabwe depends on South Africa for most of its technical support and consumer goods and, with its agricultural sector seriously damaged by the land invasions, it is now looking to its southern neighbor for staple food supplies. Just as the isolated, white-minority government of Rhodesia once depended for its survival on apartheid-era South Africa, now beleaguered Zimbabwe considers President Mbeki's South Africa to be its lifeline...
...green, rich cattle, wheat and tobacco lands of Chinhoyi, 120 km northwest of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, are remembered as the scene of early skirmishes in the black guerrilla war more than two decades ago that ended white rule in what was then Rhodesia. Last week most of the 90 farms around Chinhoyi were deserted. Many had been looted and pillaged by mobs acting with the blessing of President Robert Mugabe. Farm equipment, seed and fertilizer were stolen, and livestock killed or driven into the fields. "I feel as though I've been raped," said a Chinhoyi farmer, surveying...
...freedom, the late '60s, and we had never heard of anything like that happening before. My grandfather was a gentle man who cared deeply for the black families who lived unofficially on his farm. His attacker was never found; he was assumed to be a freedom fighter from Rhodesia who randomly attacked my grandparents. It was such a painful event, I was surprised to find it in my thoughts a few years ago. Remembering it was really the beginning of the play. While I based the play on two true incidents, I chose to write it as a fictional story...