RHODESIA - Six Years After Independence - Plain Truth Staff - September 1971

Plain Truth Staff

Politically blackballed by world public opinion in 1965, hit by an attempted economic strangulation from U.N.-imposed trade sanctions and pestered by the inherent problems of a frontier nation struggling with Twentieth Century realities-those were the birth pangs of Rhodesia. Today, the furor has died to a low rumble. As November 11, 1971 rolls around-the sixth year of the nation's independence - Rhodesia is alive and well. The nineteen fifties and early sixties saw the decline and fall of European colonialism in Africa. As European resistance against colonial independence weakened, the current of African nationalism ran stronger and became more traumatic. Sometimes change came in an orderly fashion. But all too often "progress" was spotted with violence and bloodshed, by both black and white. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library