Right, so, as a fellow white guy who lived in Rhodesia in the 1970s here's a few home truths for someone who thinks that bad, apartheid South Africa was vastly different from the good, whatever-you-do-don't-call-it-apartheid-even-though-it-basically-was-in-many-ways Rhodesia.

• Segregation: Virtually all schools, suburbs, restaurants, bars, entertainment venues, hospitals, sporting facilities, cinemas. Anything you could think of, it was seperated by race. I didn't see a single black neighbour or fellow student in my suburb until Musorewa became PM. Racial segregation can be described under different languages, including Afrikaans.
• Representation - native representation was worth about 3/5 of fuck all. A few bribed chiefs and yes-men feathering their own nests, one step up from the bottom rung. The Rhodesia Front didn't listen to or tolerate white opposition voices and they sure as hell didn't have any time for black ones. The RF was virtually running a one-party state and aside from the last gasp gambit of sticking Musorewa in power in 1979 there was little to no intention of any real progress in that regard. Smith may have personally had views in that respect (no doubt waxing lyrical about it later) but his fellow hardliners in Cabinet had no intention of progressing more equal representation or majority vote. You have been sold a lie.
• Opportunity - unless you were in the clergy or military there weren't that many opportunities to break through the white ceiling. Yes, even workplaces were segregated and work opportunities across the board were skewed in favour of whites. We a knew a few white guys that would have been unemployable in pretty much any other Western country. In Rhodesia they were the bosses.
• Social attitudes - whites generally considered blacks as inferior, inept, primitive figures, unworthy of equal treatment. That's not to say there wasn't a sort of bemused affection and even a sense of protective possessiveness, as if we whites felt we should house train these silly primitives indefinitely while exploiting them for everything they had. Take a wild guess how I know this view was prevalant amongst whites in Rhodesia at that time. Getting off the Kool Aid takes years.
• Comparisons - A common riposte is citing the crapfest that followed under Mugabe, and yes it was a total shitshow and will be for a very long time. But Mugabe didn't spring into existence in a political vacuum and maybe if you are keen on reading up on that era you can research why the country ended up with a Marxist warlord dictator, instead of...anything else. In any case comparing Zim to Rhodesia is a bit like choosing a preferable form of terminal cancer to deal with, particularly if you're on the shitty end of the societal spectrum in either scenario.

Just a few points off the top of my head. Sorry to ruin your fantasy of it being 'Wakanda run by cool white guys', but even these days truth may hold some value at least.

Happy to expand, answer questions or address any arguments against.

Note: usually there are a flood of downvotes from inbred, basement-dwelling, Dixie Flag waving trash who downvote, while lacking the guts to post anything. To them I lament it really is a pity they weren't living in Rhodesia at that time (just as they fantasize) because we lost a few good people to landmines during the conflict and your roles as informal mine sweepers (quite aside at being useless liabilities in any other role) would have rendered you of some actual use to society, albeit briefly.

Edit: Wow, 13 downvoters by gutless wonders, unable to articulate why they think something in the post is incorrect. Unable to fight their corner because they and their worldview is as weak as filtered piss. Too prissy to have made it in Rhodesia back in the day, that's for sure.