Dr Peter Hammond: Remembering Rhodesia, the 11th November and Ian Smith
Since 1914 the world has not been at peace. The consequences of 1914 continue to afflict all of us. The Versailles Treaty, which ended the First World War and guaranteed the...
Category: Courageous Heroes
Preface to ‘Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia’ by Frederick Courteney Selous 1896
Editor: The preface that Frederick C Selous wrote to his book Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia, his account of the Matabele War, provides a fascinating insight into the first five years of pioneer...
An Incredible Era: A Diary From The 1890 Pioneer Column That Founded Rhodesia
Editor: Celebrating the incredible Pioneer Column that founded Rhodesia, here is ‘Skipper’ Hoste’s account of his time in the Column. This is an abbreviated version, please read the full version in...
The Ambush! The Incredible Determination of a Wounded Man to Save his Unit
Intaf’s Umtali Reaction Unit – The Ambush by Dudley Wall Umtali Reaction Unit Euan Kay was tasked to form a Reaction Unit in Umtali in 1977 near Burma Valley. Burma Valley...
Trouble At The Pungwe! Intaf Corporal George Muzinda Survives Terrorist Gang
Editor: A pungwe is usually an all night Marxist ‘Struggle Session’ in the tradition of Maoist Terror, it remains feared even decades after ‘liberation’: “Villagers, farm employees and even in some...
Blood, Sweat & Tears: The Hero’s of Rhodesia’s National Parks that remain International War Zones 42 years later
“A feature of this book is the chapter entitled Rhino Wars, a hard-hitting account that will open the eyes of many. Regular and covert anti-poaching operations in the lower Zambezi Valley and...
Murdered By Mugabe’s Thugs: Missionary Who Loved Outcast Lepers In Rhodesia May Be Canonised A Saint
If Bradburne does become a saint, it will be the extraordinary concluding chapter in a thoroughly extraordinary life… Editor: The article below is from the Daily Mail article by Harry Mount,...
Omay Lion Attack: The Tragic Loss Of Al Tourle, A ‘Soldier’s Soldier’
By Kevin Thomas Another deadly lion attack took place on 09 April 1972, a mere five days after National Parks warden Len Harvey’s death, and as the crow flies, probably about...
How Rhodesia Bush War Hero Mike Borlace Encountered Saintly American Missionary Surgeon Dave Drake
“There is a mission hospital at Karanda run by an American doctor, Drake, who is the nearest to a saint I have ever met.” Silver Cross recipient and helicopter pilot Mike...
Rhodesia’s Lethal Weapon: Flight Lt. Kevin (Cocky) Benecke SCR DCD
“Sir, I am not cut out for recce. This is a job for an old man with patience, like you.” by Sally-Ann Lowe (info from Group Captain PJH Petter-Bowyer’s Winds of...
Meet the Impossibles: Rhodesia’s Bush War Flight Engineers in CHOPPERTECH
“Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your Honour.” by Gordon (Beaver)...
‘Wee Jock’ Hutton: A British & Rhodesian War Hero With The Demeanor Of A Giant
“Small in stature, he had the demeanour of a giant. He was tough as nails and fitter than most half his age… If you spoke in riddles of political correctness, you...
Disarmed & Wounded: How to Crash Land a Disabled Helicopter Alongside 27 Terrorists Firing AK47s & Win? Ask a Rhodesian!
“We of the RAR used to laugh at your soldiers. To us they looked like boys. But they have showed us how to fight. They have the faces of boys, but...
Why Rhodesians Never Die! Rt. Hon. Ian Smith A Man Honoured Through The Generations
While researching, Jan Lamprecht creator of AfricanCrisis, found a few revealing comments under a youtube video about Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Written as recently as this year, we can see...
‘Hendrick Verwoerd: South Africa’s Greatest Prime Minister’ Murdered in 1966 By The Money Powers That Feared Him
“Stephen Goodson’s survey will astonish most English-speaking South Africans.“ A courageous and thorough researcher, Stephen Mitford Goodson, the well known expelled insider of the Reserve Bank of South Africa, has produced a most...
A Giant Among Men – Rhodesian Farmer Martin Olds: “Farmers are Enemies of the State!”
SHOCK AND AWE! Technically known as rapid dominance, it is a tactic based on the use of overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the “enemy’s” perception of the battlefield...
Danny Roxo: After the Genocide in Mozambique he Continued the Fight Against Communist Proxy Armies
Contrary to what modern historians would have you believe, most colonial natives wanted NOTHING to do with black “freedom fighters” who resorted to terror, abduction and mass murder at every opportunity...
The Accidental Rhodesian: Bush War Helicopter Combat Pilot Ace Mike Borlace
The secret night mission across the border into hostile Marxist Mozambique was completed. The CT [communist terrorist] camp was all but destroyed and all Hell had broken loose. The 31-man SAS...
Why ‘Rhodesians Never Die’: The Spirit Of Rhodesia
Editor: How can a people obliterated claim they ‘never die’? Are they hanging onto past glory? A narcissistic romanticism? Or are they the memory holders? The keepers of the flame of...
Pamwe Chete! ‘Schulie’ the Legend of the Rhodesian Selous Scouts
“Some Men Are Morally Opposed to ViolenceThey Are Protected By Men Who Are Not“ CAPTAIN CHRIS SCHOLLENBERG (affectionately known as ‘SCHULIE’) by Sally-Ann Lowe drawing on the book “Selous Scouts: Top...
