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In the throes of the Rhodesian Bush War, resourceful Rhodesian forces, adept in marksmanship and reliant on the formidable penetration of the 7.62x51mm round, circumvented embargoes and sourced diverse FAL variants, countering the Kalashnikov-armed ZANLA and ZIPRA insurgents with tailored tactics and relentless grit, heralding a turbulent era that eventually birthed Zimbabwe and witnessed a consequential shift in military armament.

Today, there are times when it can all feel too much. Certainly, growing up in the presence of crime, poverty, corruption, violence and inequality is disillusioning. It can even be demoralising. Indeed, our faith in our own democracy can erode. But tempered though we are, a democratic South Afr...

Since the bush war began in 1966, the Rhodesian mounted infantry played a crucial role in the fight.

When Israel supported boycotts against a white supremacist regime Israel not only boycotted Rhodesia in the 1960s, it fully backed the armed liberation movement that would eventually overthrow its white-led regime. A Rhodesian soldier questioning villagers near the border of Botswana in the fall of 1977. (J. Ross Baughman) On September 20, 1966, David Ramin, then Israel’s representative at the UN, presented his country’s official position on Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, to the General Assembly. ...

The Zimbabwe Independent March 20, 2020 THIS is the fourth extract from Blessing-Miles Tendi’s book The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker (Cambridge University Press). Tendi is an Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Oxford. Permission for reproduction of extracts of the book was granted exclusively to the Zimbabwe Independent by the author. Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker is available in Zimbabwean book...