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Bitter Harvest - Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of its independence
Ian Smith - with a a new foreward by Rupert Cornwell
Publisher: Blake (2008)
Paperback - 435pages; 16pp b/w pics
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Ian Smith, Rhodesia's former Prime Minister, is a man with the ability to excite powerful emotions in all who hear his name. To those who revere him he is a hero, a mighty leader, a man whose formidable integrity led him into head-to-head confrontation with the Labour Government of Britain in the 1960s.To others he is a demon. In his revealing autobiography Ian Smith himself tells the truth about his remarkable political career. His historic Declaration of Independence in 1965 and the excesses of the Mugabe dictatorship that succeeded him.
'When I look back over what had happened to our country [Rhodesia] over the past 20 years, it would be easy for me to simply say:"I told you so," ' said Ian Smith in the foreword to his book. It is all clearly laid down in the pages of this book. As Mugabe told him on the day they won the election in March 1980: 'We cannot get over how fortunate we are inheriting this jewel of Africa, with its expertise, professionalism, technological know-how, infrastructure, the bread basket of Central Africa, and the skilled technicians who keep the wheels running.' He had it all at his fingertips. ........Today it is a total disaster, absolute chaos indeed anarchy.