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I have the privilege to have been born into two of the smallest 'tribes' yet greatest warriors of our time.
I am
#Rhodesian
I am
#Boer
Some of you may be wondering what has the story of Rhodesia to do with current events. Why do I hold on to 'dead' history?
From this point on
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Who remembers when we could still do this?
Stop safely at a lay-by and have a snack.
#Memories
#LongTimeAgo
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Remembering today
#Rhodesian
farmer Martin Olds, who on 18 April 2000 held out, injured & alone in his burning farm house for 5 hours against a well-armed professional military hit squad of 70 thugs with AK47 automatics and armour piercing bullets.
A hit ordered by Mugabe
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The Vaal River is under siege ๐ณ๐ณ
Taken over by water lettuce. This is a huge problem! Each plant produces 5000 seeds. The problem almost doubles daily ๐ณ
@Rand_Water
what do you intend to do about it?
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I donโt know who to credit with this beautiful video but wanted to share with all wildlife lovers ๐ฏ๐ฆ
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Quote below: Zimbabweans never fled Rhodesia under a White man but now they fleeing Zimbabwe under a black man.
Actions speak louder than words.
#Zimbabweans
Zimbabweans never fled Rhodesia under a White man but now they fleeing Zimbabwe under a black man.
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Who has seen this video? Does anyone know where this happened? Itโs tragic ๐ช
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I ate at a table
Did you?
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This little boy is now nearly 15 years old, and I have only seen him and his sister 5 times. His Dad and Mom (my daughter) left South Africa in search of safety and employment. I have lost precious moments of all their lives. ๐ข In reality, I'm now only a distant figure they
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Who was lucky enough to travel and sleep on these coaches?
Iโm not ashamed to say my awesome Dad was a train driver and our holidays began the moment we stepped on to the train. Northern Rhodesia to the South Coast
#BackInTheDay
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Our water warriors along the Vaal are working tirelessly to try control the
#waterLettuce
but as fast as they remove it, it multiplies.
Where are you government departments? Where is Dept of Water and Sanitation?
@DWS_RSA
Where is Rand Water?
@Rand_Water
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I'm so longing for my girls today, and it got me wondering how many other Moms and Dads are in the same situation, having sent their children to safer countries, where they have a future. A career.
This ANC government has stolen so much for us it can't be quantified in money ๐ฅ
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The doors locked. Windows secure. Alarms activated.
My thoughts are with our neighbor whose cattle were butchered last night.
He is terrified for his wife and kiddies. An unspoken message left there on his land.
Our community is on high alert. Itโs going to be a long night
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I canโt help but shudder as I see the violence exploding all around us.
As much as Iโve tried to forget that terrible month in 1960 when as a little girl of 6, I sat on the floor in my parents dining room with another little girl whose parents had fled from the Belgium Congo
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Yes! Anyone else?
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Angel lady who nursed this poor creature back to health over a period of 7 weeks.
๐ข๐ข
Christine-Herbst-Jansen von Nieuwenhuizen
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The Afrikaans nation teach their kids such beautiful manners and respect for their elders. I see it often and experienced it again this morning when we arrived back at the car after shopping
Thank you to those parents who still take the time to try. It doesnโt go unnoticed ๐
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Itโs after midnight and I should be asleep but here I lay quietly listening for unusual sounds.
Bars, walls, alarms protect me. My weapon by my side. Itโs insane! Something is very wrong. A person shouldnโt have to live like this
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Kudos to Checkers for thinking out of the box! ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
One way to keep looters away is to spread cooking oil all over the floor
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This photo haunts me today. How many of our brothers, husbands, friends died or are left with permanent (not always seen) scars. You will never be forgotten. This I promise.
This is also for those who fought in the SA bush war. Deepest respect my brothers and sisters.
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#HumanRightsDay
.... means something very different to me.
I post this in honour of my brother who paid the ultimate price fighting for the freedom of our family and nation in
#Rhodesia
(no, he isn't in this photo)
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How to Kill a Country
I think I am qualified to answer this question, having been through the experience three times. Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and now South Africa is teetering on the brink, we're holding our breath about an uncertain future.
I'll
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โAll it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul, and they will never notice how broken you really are.โ - Robin Williams -
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๐ซก๐ซก To all soldiers who fought in the
#Rhodesian
& SA
#bushwar
๐ซก๐ซก Indeed to Every
#Veteran
We need to live each day mindful of the fact that hundreds of men kept us and our families safe enough to be alive today
May we never squander the life they died for.
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Today I dedicate this post to a Man amongst Men, my brother who lies in a cemetery in Salisbury
#Rhodesia
the country he loved
Martin, you left us 41 years ago, in service to our country.
Gone but
#NeverForgotten
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Who else is lying awake at 2am thinking and worrying about our future in South Africa? ๐
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We thank the Farmer AND the Farm Workers ๐
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More dogs poisoned in our area again last night. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
We can expect an attack and will be on high alert.
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RIP Dawn Lindbergh
Thank you for many happy hours of music
A heart full of memories ๐ฅฐ
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Just heard an ad in Afrikaans on RSG radio encouraging people to pay their municipal accounts
For fโs sake ! Play this ad in another language ๐๐๐
We are the ones paying but not getting services
Try Soweto...
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I came across this photo this morning. It's such a typically
#Rhodesian
scene as I remember...
The clothing, those shorts all our guys wore, lean and fit, at home and in the bush. The little guy with his outfit and hat. The surroundings. The wholevibe of the photo.
But of
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Today I raise my glass to one of the most amazing men ever to walk this globe. My beloved father.
Dad, you were born in Bloemfontein today, 118 years ago, just a couple of years after the end of the second Boer War. You were still a small child when devastation forced my great
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Fantastic precedent achieved in Bloemfontien. Municipalities that do not provide services for which the charge, by implication lose the right to provide such services. Meaning the rate payer is free to select another company to provide such services.
Let this be a warning to
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I used have this dream that as time passed, children would visit. The house would be filled the giggles of grandkids.
But โฆ they left for safer countries, where jobs are available for our people.
Travel cost out of my budget.
Iโm wondering how many others feel this missing ๐
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A moment of truth...
I wish I had listened to my future self when I was called a whenwe'
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Who else is lying awake wondering whether we whites will survive (literally) to see next Christmas in South Africa?
So much can happen in a year for anyone in any country but most others may be hit by normal crime.
We are targeted because of our skin colour
@OranjeSwaeltjie
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Happy birthday to me ๐
Though such mixed feelings, my girls and grandkids in other continents, still we celebrate another trip around the sun with a cheesecake across the internet ๐
I hear their voices, see their faces but oh how I long to hold them in my arms
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Who still uses this wonder ointment.
If yes. What do you use it for?
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It's disgraceful that the South African president and mr Hat, so-called police minister don't care what's happening in
#FarmMurders
. Even the British media is noticing.
However, not unusual, since this was part of the plan anyhow, according to the 'frog-boiling' document ๐ก
British media has more to say about farm murders in South Africa than the South African president and police minister.
#StopTheMurders
#BrendinHorner
#ChantelKershaw
Female farmer sexually assaulted and strangled to death, South Africa via
@MailOnline
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Some of you may wonder why I keep hammering on about
#Rhodesia
. Dead history? Oh no my friends.
Whether you live in SA, US, UK or Europe, you should be interested in our history, because sadly.. this is probably what lies ahead for you.
We were not perfect. Which country is?
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From a thriving first world country to junk in 25 years
Thank you ANC
| JUST IN | Moody's cuts South Africa's credit rating to junk
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1/This is going to be a thread that will make me unpopular amongst some of you. That's ok.
You know how passionate I am about the
#FarmAttacks
and
#FarmMurders
. Tonight I am saying STAY AWAY FROM SENEKAL. The following thread will explain my reasons. We all make our own choices
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What a moment!
We are with you in spirit my brothers and sisters
๐๐๐
Al wanneer jy รฑ Boer op sy knee sal kry is as ons bid vir God.
#BrendinHorner
#PlaasTerreur
#StopFarmMurders
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How wonderful. How I wish this would work in South Africa, but we all know it won't.
This kind of thing really accentuates the criminality of our culture. Such a pity
In
#Germany
๐ฉ๐ช ppl buying groceries and leaving them at the side of the highway for anyone in need ๐คโค๏ธ๐
#Deutschland
#kindness
#KindnessMatters
#SundayThoughts
#SundayMotivation
#boston
#nhpolitics
#sundayvibes
@Siemens
@BoschGlobal
@siemensindustry
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Iโm finding it extremely difficult to suppress my anger towards the pettiness of this government focusing on arresting kite surfers
..while not addressing the real problems we face in South Africa
Are they deliberately pushing us to react?
Are they deliberately provoking us?
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Rhodesia = Bread Basket of Africa
Zimbabwe = Basket case of Africa
What changed? Ask yourself ๐ก
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Imagine travellingโฆ.
No roads
No toilets
No bridges
No Engen ๐คฃ
No hospitals
No modern tools
No shops
No houses
No translators
Often, No food
They did it! Warriors all.
With their hands they forged a new life
Plus they fought for their lives all the way
Our ancestors are
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Missing my daughters tonight. ๐ข
#ANC
you have stolen so much from me and many other parents
Forced our children to leave the country to find work overseas.
Stolen the time with my grandchildren.
The little daily things which mean so much to us.
Gone. Forever.
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In memory of the passengers and crew of Air Rhodesia Flight RH827: Viscount "Umniati" YP-YND
Shot down February 12th 1979 over the Rhodesian bush near Kariba by Joshua Nkomoโs Zipra terrorists. There were no survivors.
R I P
๐๐๐๐๐๐
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The hypocrisy is too much. When an African wins a European beauty contest it's a triumph for diversity, but when it's the other way around they start seething. The critics say a black contestant should have been selected to represent the country
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Ian Smith has been proven right. Many times over and with tragic consequences.
I have to wonder, are our predictions for South Africa going to be proven right as well? Is this the future for this country?
Zimbabwe declared a state of emergency in its capital city, Harare amid a deadly outbreak of the medieval disease, cholera.
What you are seeing below is raw sewage flowing in the streets of Harare due to an unserviced old sewage system left by the colonial government.
This is
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Sadly, never truer than here in South Africa
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Looking back is deadly but in the depth of the night itโs sometimes so hard to block out how much has been lost.
Looking at this photo of Salisbury. Memories of the afternoon storms. The smell of the rain on the hot tar and the calm afterwards.
We were blessed.
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Today
@ImStayingSA
only because I have no choice. I'd leave this bloody country at the drop of a hat if I had any choice. Today's slaughter of the horses proves the f*cking mentality of what we must deal with on a daily basis, just under the surface of supposed 'civilized' ๐ก๐ก๐ก
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I'll be taking a break from Twitter for a while... not sure how long but I need to clear my mind.
Be safe my friends xxx
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He was tied to a pole by his neck and had been brutally beaten, tortured and strangled to death.
A young life gone forever. ๐ก๐ข๐ก๐ข
Farm murder: Young farmer tortured and strangled to death, Paul Roux via
@SATodayNews
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War is hell. We in
#Rhodesia
didn't choose this hell, it was thrust upon us. We only fought for the freedom to choose our own future. Those in the frontlines took the brunt to protect their families back home
I look around today
Different country
I'm afraid it's coming again
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The similarities between the Rhodesian bush war and the South African bush war struck me this morning.
We Rhodesians fought for our country, some paid the ultimate price. We no longer have a country to call our own, we are exiles, some on other continents.
South Africans, yes
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For our English speaking friends:
'The Boer saved this little rabbit, and kept it in his pocket while helped fight the fires'
We see the exhaustion, yet love, clearly on his face. Oh how much more can our farmers endure? ๐ข๐ข๐ข๐ข
PRICELESS die boer het di hasie gered van di brande en voer hom per hand en di hasie was di heeltyd in sy sak terwyl hy help brande blus
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'The manโs one leg was cut with an angle grinder. The womanโs nose was pinched in a vice grip...The couple sustained terrible injuries, the manโs are life threatening, he also sustained skull and facial fractures'
What words can describe these monsters?
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Taken in Namibia. I don't know why, but this photo just fills me with such strong emotions.
Stillness and serenity, something sadly lacking in these tumultuous times
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Oh I love it when a plan comes together!
(Now let's see who will also give their age away)
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@twatterbaas
@iamyesyouareno
@EndWokeness
RIP dear Uncle Christo and Christa. The feeling this brings into my soul can't be described in words ๐ก๐ก๐ก
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This government has conveniently forgotten this basic fact. Or perhaps some still think food is somehow generated in the shops?
Tonight at 7pm CarteBlanche Countrywide, farmers have been left with little more than the clothes on their back after the Land Bank went on a debt collection drive. But whatโs really behind the relentless legal action?
That's
#CarteBlanche
this Sunday at 7pm on M-Net channel 101
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Weโre on our own.
On our own.
No oneโs coming to help us, to save us.
We have to realise that and do what we can, as individuals and communities to defend ourselves and plan a future.
I stopped at the Witkruismonument on my way to a friends wedding. The wedding was beautiful and cheerful, but the groom cried about a relative who was murdered on a farm. There are less and less people in
#SouthAfrica
who hasn't lost a relative to a brutal farm murder ๐
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2 Great men: Rhodes and Smith
Ian Smith was the only leader who could walk down the streets of Rhodesia & Zimbabwe and be mobbed with love. He never needed military motorcades or armed guards to protect him unlike Mugabe and Mnangagwa The Crocodile.
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Whoโs Ouma always had these hidden away?
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We Rhodesians simply wanted to get on with building a great nation that elevated all. We elected a humble Prime Minister.
Crime was so low police didn't need guns!
A young nation that created some incredible history that very few nations can lay claim to matching or replicate๐ช
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Who else is missing their children this morning, who were forced to leave this country in search of a safer life and employment?
๐ข
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Guess I need a hug this morning if any of you kind folks have one to spare. No special reason ...
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How beautiful is our country
#SouthAfrica
Photo taken near Wellington Western
#Cape
. Credit Neil Buchner
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This morning I dedicate my post to my beloved Dad and my four brothers, all who are no longer with me in this earthly realm. Also to husbands, fathers, yes also those young men and In schools or universities who are struggling through this minefield we call life.
May this day
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15 Years ago this man died.
Ian Smith, a gentleman to the end, he passed away quietly in the St James Retirement Hotel.
A President every
#Rhodesian
should be proud of.
A visionary, with integrity and the courage to lead, to make difficult decisions.
My hero.
#Respect
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We owe so much to these brave young men!
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Iโm so proud of my Afrikaans heritage! Once again 2 young boys saw me struggling with a bag & rushed to help me.
Thank you to their parents & every other parent fighting against the tide of rebelliousness sweeping across the world, to teach their children beautiful manners ๐
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We will never forgive
Nor forget.
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I wouldnโt usually celebrate someoneโs death but today I raise a glass to the person who shot this filth ๐ฅ
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I was asked why do I keep looking back at memories of
#Rhodesia
.
My answer: We need to keep our history TRUE and alive. Never allow the โvictorsโ fudge our truth.
Teach your children!
May the sacrifices of our fathers, brothers, sisters.. never be in vain ๐
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Tonight we have such a heavy hearts in sympathy with our farmers who lost so much in the
#fires
A Boer must have such deep faith. Faith that rain will water his planted seeds. That his animals will have enough to eat. On top of that he must face
#FarmAttacks
#FAITH
#Respect
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This is
#blood
/water๐ฉธ flowing from the disgusting abattoir through the streets of Parys, close to where I live.
This is where children play
Where shoppers shop
Where the elderly survive
This is the โNew South Africaโ
Absolutely disgusting ๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คฎ
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Well done Rod! You put your money where you mouth is. To all those who turned up for this protest ๐๐๐๐๐๐
I have been hosed and had firecrackers thrown at me for protesting the tourism and restaurant lockdown.
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The shit is loading for us here in South Africa
Off 9,5 hours out of 24. ๐ก
Shit in our rivers, our seas..
Shit in our streets..
๐ก
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I wonder whether this unreal feeling is with other whites in South Africa as well?
How is a person supposed to feel when we face losing everything itโs taken a lifetime to accumulate.
When perhaps the only goal will be survival?
And if that ... how? To where?
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The numbers of
#FarmAttacks
and
#FarmMurders
have been insane this past week.
Whatโs going on? Are these orchestrated attacks? Please tell me what you think
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#Curfew
Once again patrols are illegal. Our farmers are so vulnerable, more are going to be horrendously tortured.
#FarmAttacks
and
#FarmMurders
, already insane will get worse.
Well I'm telling you CR. I will protect my neighbours. I don't give a damn what rules you make.
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Does anyone know where I can buy this toy?
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I suspect we who went through those last years of
#Rhodesia
are extra sensitive to events around us today. I haven't met a Rhodesian who was afraid of a weapon. Most of us feel quite comfortable with the feel of that metal in our hands.
Yet it was more than that. Our reason was
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