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The Rhodesian Front, Smith's party, won them all in the first elections in 1980, and despite wartime threats against his life, he stayed on, asserting that it was in the interests of his white followers and at their behest that he did so.Initially, Smith and Mugabe cooperated with one another. When Smith became prime minister, neighboring states were nearing black-ruled independence. Ian Smith, the former prime minister, once said he could never accept black rule, not even "in a thou- sand years." Second only to the apartheid rulers of South Africa, he became black Africa's symbol of iniquitous white rule.Smith's father, Douglas Smith, emigrated to the territory in 1898 from Hamilton, Scotland, settling at a modest village called Selukwe as Shurugwi was known under white rule - 200 miles southwest of Salisbury, now Harare. But old age didn’t stop his attacks on Mugabe, calling him a terrorist and communist who ruined Zimbabwe’s economy. After labelling Mugabe a bloodthirsty terrorist, Smith described him in the early 1980s, shortly after independence from Britain, as "a very pleasant change from what most of us had expected. For 15 turbulent years following UDI, Smith’s government fought an increasingly bitter war against African nationalist guerillas, which cost up to 40,000, mainly black, lives.
God bless you all. The white Rhodesians' rebellion had finally crumbled.The Constitution drawn up at Lancaster House in London contained compromises guaranteeing that whites would have 20 of the 100 seats in Parliament. "I have challenged Mugabe to walk down the street with me and see who has most support. By Alan Cowell. IAN Smith, an ardent advocate of white rule in Rhodesia, who unilaterally declared independence (UDI) from Britain in 1965 and governed as an uncompromising prime minister for more than a decade, has died, aged 88. "They are not stupid, these blacks," Smith said in the 2004 interview. "There are millions of black people who say things were better when I was in control," he said in an interview in 2004. Born in the small Southern Rhodesian mining town of Selukwe on April 8, 1919, the son of a farmer, Ian Douglas Smith was educated locally and at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, where he obtained a bachelor of commerce degree. "Keeping themselves in power is what they are good at. The image and the message did not fade over the years. Under the arrangement, Smith agreed to step down, and handed over power to Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who won elections in April 1979. "No African rule in my lifetime," he said. FACTBOX: Key facts about white Rhodesian leader Ian Smith Officials in Mugabe’s government said on Tuesday that Smith — who in 1976 declared he didn’t believe in black majority rule, “not in a thousand years” — would not be missed. As a fighter pilot in Britain’s Royal Air Force during World War Two, he was shot down twice and underwent plastic surgery after his first crash left him with a permanently lop-sided face which made it almost impossible for him to smile. But, as he aged he spent more and more time in Harare, particularly after black squatters occupied part of the farm in September 2001, under Mugabe's land expropriation campaign, and refused to leave.A little-known political figure, who referred to himself as "a back-room worker," Smith attained office as deputy prime minister in 1962, the year his party, the Rhodesian Front, first won power. Condemnation of the rebellion heaped up. Over the years, Mugabe has suggested his government could have hanged Smith and his closest allies for war crimes and human rights abuses. The United Nations applied international sanctions intended to cut off Rhodesia from the rest of the world in 1966. Each time, black anger deepened.For the black majority, the rebellion was the worst of affronts, an institutionalized humiliation, and in December 1972 nationalist guerrillas attacked a farm in northeastern Rhodesia with rockets, to start a war that eventually took 30,000 lives.Only in 1976, and under pressure exerted by Henry Kissinger through South Africa, Smith's main ally, did the Rhodesian leader acknowledge the need for majority rule. "We gave Rhodesia 15 wonderful years extra," he said in an interview on his farm at Shurugwi in 1983. I have much better relations with black people than he does." "An honest Rhodesian," a political poster proclaimed in 1964. "There have been five generations of my family here," he said in the interview, recounting how his parents and grandparents were buried on one of the farms at Shurugwi in central Zimbabwe. He will never hand over Rhodesia."
Each collapse of the negotiating process bought Smith a little more time to extend minority domination. We held the line back. In 1964, a cabinet revolt against his predecessor, Winston Field, gave Smith the job of prime minister.On Nov. 11, 1965, Smith announced in emotionless tones that Rhodesia had unilaterally declared itself independent from Britain, rather than bow to pressure from London for concessions toward the black majority. "But Smith never apologized for leading the country into war and never came to terms with what he depicted as inevitable decline under black majority rule. Two years later, Smith left Parliament, claiming he had been forced out illegally by Mugabe.While he played a modest, behind-the-scenes role in political life, Smith never regained the prominence of his days as a rebel against the British crown. HARARE (Reuters) - Ian Smith, who defied the world in 1965 when he led 270,000 white Rhodesians in a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain rather than accept moves to black-majority rule, has died in South Africa aged 88. The white population, estimated to have shrunk to about 40,000, has kept a low political profile since often violent farm seizures by Mugabe’s supporters started seven years ago.
Although he occupied no formal position after leaving parliament, he retained a place in the heart of a white minority much shrunken by emigration.
"I'm pleasantly surprised at the number of people who come to me and say: when you were in the chair we thought you were too inflexible and unbending. Mugabe dismisses white Zimbabweans opposed to his rule as hankering for Smith’s racist Rhodesia.
The Rhodesian Front, Smith's party, won them all in the first elections in 1980, and despite wartime threats against his life, he stayed on, asserting that it was in the interests of his white followers and at their behest that he did so.Initially, Smith and Mugabe cooperated with one another. When Smith became prime minister, neighboring states were nearing black-ruled independence. Ian Smith, the former prime minister, once said he could never accept black rule, not even "in a thou- sand years." Second only to the apartheid rulers of South Africa, he became black Africa's symbol of iniquitous white rule.Smith's father, Douglas Smith, emigrated to the territory in 1898 from Hamilton, Scotland, settling at a modest village called Selukwe as Shurugwi was known under white rule - 200 miles southwest of Salisbury, now Harare. But old age didn’t stop his attacks on Mugabe, calling him a terrorist and communist who ruined Zimbabwe’s economy. After labelling Mugabe a bloodthirsty terrorist, Smith described him in the early 1980s, shortly after independence from Britain, as "a very pleasant change from what most of us had expected. For 15 turbulent years following UDI, Smith’s government fought an increasingly bitter war against African nationalist guerillas, which cost up to 40,000, mainly black, lives.
God bless you all. The white Rhodesians' rebellion had finally crumbled.The Constitution drawn up at Lancaster House in London contained compromises guaranteeing that whites would have 20 of the 100 seats in Parliament. "I have challenged Mugabe to walk down the street with me and see who has most support. By Alan Cowell. IAN Smith, an ardent advocate of white rule in Rhodesia, who unilaterally declared independence (UDI) from Britain in 1965 and governed as an uncompromising prime minister for more than a decade, has died, aged 88. "They are not stupid, these blacks," Smith said in the 2004 interview. "There are millions of black people who say things were better when I was in control," he said in an interview in 2004. Born in the small Southern Rhodesian mining town of Selukwe on April 8, 1919, the son of a farmer, Ian Douglas Smith was educated locally and at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, where he obtained a bachelor of commerce degree. "Keeping themselves in power is what they are good at. The image and the message did not fade over the years. Under the arrangement, Smith agreed to step down, and handed over power to Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who won elections in April 1979. "No African rule in my lifetime," he said. FACTBOX: Key facts about white Rhodesian leader Ian Smith Officials in Mugabe’s government said on Tuesday that Smith — who in 1976 declared he didn’t believe in black majority rule, “not in a thousand years” — would not be missed. As a fighter pilot in Britain’s Royal Air Force during World War Two, he was shot down twice and underwent plastic surgery after his first crash left him with a permanently lop-sided face which made it almost impossible for him to smile. But, as he aged he spent more and more time in Harare, particularly after black squatters occupied part of the farm in September 2001, under Mugabe's land expropriation campaign, and refused to leave.A little-known political figure, who referred to himself as "a back-room worker," Smith attained office as deputy prime minister in 1962, the year his party, the Rhodesian Front, first won power. Condemnation of the rebellion heaped up. Over the years, Mugabe has suggested his government could have hanged Smith and his closest allies for war crimes and human rights abuses. The United Nations applied international sanctions intended to cut off Rhodesia from the rest of the world in 1966. Each time, black anger deepened.For the black majority, the rebellion was the worst of affronts, an institutionalized humiliation, and in December 1972 nationalist guerrillas attacked a farm in northeastern Rhodesia with rockets, to start a war that eventually took 30,000 lives.Only in 1976, and under pressure exerted by Henry Kissinger through South Africa, Smith's main ally, did the Rhodesian leader acknowledge the need for majority rule. "We gave Rhodesia 15 wonderful years extra," he said in an interview on his farm at Shurugwi in 1983. I have much better relations with black people than he does." "An honest Rhodesian," a political poster proclaimed in 1964. "There have been five generations of my family here," he said in the interview, recounting how his parents and grandparents were buried on one of the farms at Shurugwi in central Zimbabwe. He will never hand over Rhodesia."
Each collapse of the negotiating process bought Smith a little more time to extend minority domination. We held the line back. In 1964, a cabinet revolt against his predecessor, Winston Field, gave Smith the job of prime minister.On Nov. 11, 1965, Smith announced in emotionless tones that Rhodesia had unilaterally declared itself independent from Britain, rather than bow to pressure from London for concessions toward the black majority. "But Smith never apologized for leading the country into war and never came to terms with what he depicted as inevitable decline under black majority rule. Two years later, Smith left Parliament, claiming he had been forced out illegally by Mugabe.While he played a modest, behind-the-scenes role in political life, Smith never regained the prominence of his days as a rebel against the British crown. HARARE (Reuters) - Ian Smith, who defied the world in 1965 when he led 270,000 white Rhodesians in a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain rather than accept moves to black-majority rule, has died in South Africa aged 88. The white population, estimated to have shrunk to about 40,000, has kept a low political profile since often violent farm seizures by Mugabe’s supporters started seven years ago.
Although he occupied no formal position after leaving parliament, he retained a place in the heart of a white minority much shrunken by emigration.
"I'm pleasantly surprised at the number of people who come to me and say: when you were in the chair we thought you were too inflexible and unbending. Mugabe dismisses white Zimbabweans opposed to his rule as hankering for Smith’s racist Rhodesia.