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| Thread ID: 145484 | 2017-11-15 15:05:00 | Zimbabwe | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 1441986 | 2017-11-16 19:03:00 | I was traveling between Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), where I lived, and Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), where I went to School, in the days of U.D.I. Each way I passed through the Zambezi River valley and regions, which depending on which side you were on was the battle area for 'freedom fighters' or 'terrorists' and Ian Smith's armed forces hunting them down. My folks owned restaurants in Hwange National Park (then Wankie Game Reserve) and I lived there for a year. Fortunately we got out just before the terrorists got too big. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1441987 | 2017-11-17 04:03:00 | Love that name! Ken:) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1441988 | 2017-11-18 07:36:00 | I was working for Burton Construction on a road job not far from Livingstone when Ian Smith declared UDI. half our African drivers & machine operators came from Rhodesia, most of them were Ian Smith supporters, some where not. I was in the Pub at Kaloma one day where we were discussing pros & cons of Ian Smith's regime. We had too many Beers, and forgot to look for a suited man nursing a beer whiles't flapping his ears. Anyway, a week or two later I was summoned by the local Policeman who showed me some deportation papers that he had to fill in so I could be deported. He told me that as he was extremely busy it would be a few days before he got around to it. He advised me to go on leave and not return. If the papers had been served my assets would have been frozen. I bought a new Datsun Ute to carry my belongings, transferred my money to New Zealand, my parents were here, then travelled to Bulawayo on a 50/50 mix of kerosene and petrol. Petrol was very hard to come by in Zambia. I managed to get enough petrol in Bulawayo to reach the South African border. A year later I shipped the Datsun to New Zealand and sold it to Farmer's Trading Co for 3 times the purchase price including customs and shipping. | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1441989 | 2017-11-18 09:33:00 | Yes, crazy days in the aftermath of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1441990 | 2017-11-18 19:48:00 | It was too much of a leap from the stone age to a civilized way of life. | prefect (6291) | ||
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