(UDI), Kiki Divaris Vehemently Supported, Racist Legislation & Ian Smith Who Created Mugabe

(UDI), Kiki Divaris Vehemently Supported, Racist Legislation & Ian Smith Who Created Mugabe

    WEDNESDAY November 11 was the 50th anniversary of former Rhodesian prime minister Ian Douglas Smith’s infamous Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI),   The majority of whites in then Rhodesia supported this audacious bid. The vast majority of blacks, coloureds and Indians did not. The absolutely predictable subsequent failure of UDI and calm reflection over the last 50 years should have induced a general consensus among Rhodesians/Zimbabweans that, at least with the benefit of…

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Mugabe ‘Rejects’ Chinese ‘Confucius Peace Prize’

Mugabe ‘Rejects’ Chinese ‘Confucius Peace Prize’

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has dissociated himself from a peace prize awarded to him by a Chinese institution.   Mugabe was last month awarded the Confucious Peace Prize – a supposed Chinese rival to the Nobel Peace Prize – for his outstanding contribution towards world peace, beating the likes of Microsoft founder Bill Gates and South Korean President Park Geun-hye.   State media columnist, Nathaniel Manheru, widely believed to be Mugabe’s spokesperson, George Charamba, said the…

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