The Bush War in Rhodesia: The Extraordinary Combat Memoir of a Rhodesian Reconnaissance SpecialistDennis Croukamp
The Bush War in Rhodesia was the most brutal and savage war ever to have happened in Southern Africa. It was adrenalin-demanding exercise ever to imagine women fighting that war effectively to bring regime change or rather a revolution. Alone crossing the Zambezi River was the most challenging ...
The creation of protected villages in Southern Rhodesia: colonial mythologies and the official mind (1972-1980) The history of the establishment of Protected Villages (PVs) in Rhodesia was largelyinfluenced by political motives and agendas of the colonial regime. The official positionby the Rhodesian...
To go back a step, the British Government wanted to introduce black majority rule to Rhodesia. Our Prime Minister at the time, Ian Smith, another Rhodesian fighter pilot during the Second World War, declared a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI). They knew then that this would be the...
Since the bush war began in 1966, the Rhodesian mounted infantry played a crucial role in the fight.
Cecil J. Rhodes (1853–1902), the mining magnate who gave his name to Rhodesia The Rhodesian Bush War The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe Africans People’s Union (ZAPU) were to become the two leading freedom or nationalist movements for the black population of Rhode...
1.A former region of south-central Africa north of the Limpopo River. The native kingdoms in the region were colonized by Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company in the 1890s. The region remained under British control until the 1960s, when northern and southern Rhodesia gained their indepe...
As a student of the Marine Corps in Vietnam and the Rhodesian Bush War, I found a book that linked them together in a narrative that I have found nowhere else. The Americans who did this are very few in number. Some never made it home and others are nowhere to be found. It’s not...
67Stan Hannan,Rhodesia Unafraid(1978) [accessed on 16 April 2022 athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYL6aTK3k6Y]; Benjamin J. Young, ‘“Our Missionaries are Not Revolutionaries”: Race, Southern Baptists, and the Protestant Far Right in the Rhodesian Bush War, 1965-1980’,Baptist Histor...
he pointed out that many operating gold mines in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) did not have did not have a separate slimes plant and it was up to the management of the mine to design their gold process circuits to recover as much gold as possible; in any case Bushtick Mines were paying...