Willough said: "Someone mentioned on the last page of the last thread, about ex-Rhodesian heritage etc. I am also aware of some conversations had with my ex South African bosses about Rhodesian's way back. They were also known to be very proud people with white wives. They were known to often have black servant mistresses on the side.......and after time, when the white man no longer wanted that mistress...in many cases, said mistresses would go missing. The black mistresses family would come searching....and often they would also be fired for their claims. The wife would often know what happened and the white mans family too.....It was considered acceptable to treat black people in that manner..............................they then would close ranks and bunker down as you say.................and stuck together, protecting their own. This was one big reason why some years back, the blacks revolted, killing the farmers and their wives in Zimbabwe.............................they had had enough."
Sorry, but that has nothing at all to do with the Zimbawean civil war. The black workers on the farms did not revolt and kill the farmers. There was a civil war in the country. Most of the blacks working on the farms sided with the white people in the war, because they had guaranteed work on the farms and decent housing as well. Not saying the whites weren't elitest, they were. Totally. But the the war came about because of educated black Zimbaweans wanting to take control of the country. It was during the cold war that this happened and many of them were educated in the USSR, so communism was a key ideology in the war against the white farmers.
As to white farmers having sex with their black female workers, this most certainly happened, but not to the extent that it caused a civil war. In fact many of the white Zimbabweans I have met were so arrogant that they would never considered have sex with a woman that didn't have white skin.
One of the things that preys on my mind about Rhodesian / Zimbabwean society was the extent to which white women were raped by white soldiers, and black women were raped by black soldiers during the conflict.
Sorry, this is not relevant to the thread.
