Retired account. Follow @AngloSaffer if you want to hear from me personally.
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If you still want to hear from me personally follow @AngloSaffer. Not much Rhodesia talk over there but plenty on South Africa.
Please help out John if you can. One of the best people at collecting first hand accounts of Rhodesia's history. 👇
Folks, a noble Rhodesian needs our help. John Van Zyl is the creator of Fighting Men of Rhodesia, a YouTube oral-history project interviewing former Rhodesian servicemen and preserving their accounts of the war. Co-host and fellow veteran Tony Ballinger put out a plea for help to support John. He's started a GoFundMe to help John.
He is a Rhodesian Bush War veteran who served in the 1st Battalion, Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI). He grew up in colonial Rhodesia and served during the Bush War. His channel has nearly 500 interviews of veterans and other Rhodesians making it one of the primary repository of memories and experiences from the Rhodesian Bush War.
John van Zyl needs financial support. Like many veterans of the Rhodesian Bush War, he belongs to a generation of white Rhodesians largely abandoned by the country they once served. Zimbabwe does not provide military pensions to former Rhodesian servicemen leaving many veterans dependent on personal savings, private pensions, family assistance, or whatever income they can generate in retirement.
John relies primarily on revenue from his YouTube channel and has relocated to the Philippines, partly because the cost of living in South Africa became unaffordable.
His work is also a historical preservation effort. Every year, more Rhodesian veterans die, taking their firsthand experiences with them. Supporting his channel helps sustain both the man conducting these interviews and the preservation of testimony that might otherwise disappear.
Come on, chinas, help a troopie out. Don't be stingy!
GoFundMe:
gofundme.com/f/help-for-john…?
Check out the channel and watch Tony's explanation/plea here: youtube.com/watch?v=HQopjhdJ…
If you don't do GoFundMe, you can PayPal directly to:
paypal.com/paypalme/johnvzyl
or join on Patreon at patreon.com/johnvanzyl
@DolioJ @Will_Tanner_1 @Rhodesiaonsol @ProjectRhodesia and others, can you help me spread the word?
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Folks, a noble Rhodesian needs our help. John Van Zyl is the creator of Fighting Men of Rhodesia, a YouTube oral-history project interviewing former Rhodesian servicemen and preserving their accounts of the war. Co-host and fellow veteran Tony Ballinger put out a plea for help to support John. He's started a GoFundMe to help John.
He is a Rhodesian Bush War veteran who served in the 1st Battalion, Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI). He grew up in colonial Rhodesia and served during the Bush War. His channel has nearly 500 interviews of veterans and other Rhodesians making it one of the primary repository of memories and experiences from the Rhodesian Bush War.
John van Zyl needs financial support. Like many veterans of the Rhodesian Bush War, he belongs to a generation of white Rhodesians largely abandoned by the country they once served. Zimbabwe does not provide military pensions to former Rhodesian servicemen leaving many veterans dependent on personal savings, private pensions, family assistance, or whatever income they can generate in retirement.
John relies primarily on revenue from his YouTube channel and has relocated to the Philippines, partly because the cost of living in South Africa became unaffordable.
His work is also a historical preservation effort. Every year, more Rhodesian veterans die, taking their firsthand experiences with them. Supporting his channel helps sustain both the man conducting these interviews and the preservation of testimony that might otherwise disappear.
Come on, chinas, help a troopie out. Don't be stingy!
GoFundMe:
gofundme.com/f/help-for-john…?
Check out the channel and watch Tony's explanation/plea here: youtube.com/watch?v=HQopjhdJ…
If you don't do GoFundMe, you can PayPal directly to:
paypal.com/paypalme/johnvzyl
or join on Patreon at patreon.com/johnvanzyl
@DolioJ @Will_Tanner_1 @Rhodesiaonsol @ProjectRhodesia and others, can you help me spread the word?
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Really fantastic stuff if you're interested in South Africa and what people are doing to combat Zimbabwefication where it's most advanced outside of Zimbabwe itself. Well worth it.
Rhodesia and Natal were both given the chance to join SA via referendum. Neither should have joined, but Rhodesia probably should have once Natal already did. Diverging paths lead to a divided english population in Southern Africa. Neither group got what they wanted.
A quick rummage through my coin jar and found: a half cent from South Africa (1961), 2 Zambia (1968), 2 Rhodesia (1964), 1 Southern Rhodesia (1936), 2 Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1962 and 1963), and 3 Zimbabwe (1994 ×2 and 1980).
Was going through my dad's suitcase and found these beauties from 1955 and 1980 from Rhodesia
@daddyhope @advocatemahere @Rhodesiaonsol @ProjectRhodesia
Keep fighting the good fight @Rhodesiaonsol. Very much thanks to you that this account grew to where it is. I appreciate it, so thank you in particular.
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It was fun. I learned a lot about history as a practice and its methods. Times like these when I wish there was a second me I could delegate to. Ah well... I hope it helped some people along the way.
I will still retain access to this account if anyone wants to contact me (or just @ me to ask questions).
Today we simultaneously commemorate the end of the First World War 107 years ago and Rhodesia's declaration of independence 60 years ago. The UDI date was chosen as a symbol of Rhodesia's loyalty and sacrifice to the British Empire during the World Wars.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, during the first-ever bout of significant European unemployment in Rhodesia’s history, frustration with the political establishment began to arise. White artisans blamed the government for permitting black competition for lower-grade white jobs. Racialism was in vogue, and the upcoming 1933 general election was its stage. A new vision began gaining influence: The Twin Pyramid Policy. (a short thread🧵)
Huggins recount of the policy thirty-five years later:
What it boiled down to was plain apartheid, with a lot of fancy bits to show how fair and realistic it was. The black and white pyramids were illustrated as being the same size: what was never defined was how far up the black pyramid went before the little white dot that represented real power came and sat on it.
But even so you must remember that what at this time [i.e. 1970] is an essentially restrictive policy, trying to limit African influence in politics for all time, was then, in the short term actually a constructive policy. It aimed at giving the Natives some say in matters that affected them and, perhaps more important, some experience in making decisions and carry them out.