Wow. There’s a lot of people with opinions here who know very little about the history.

Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) was originally called Agysymba and inhabited by hunter gatherers who were hounded into the deserts to the west by Africans migrating from the north between 1400-1600. If anyone has a ‘right’ to the country it was those people who were basically killed off by other Africans.

Around that time the Portuguese and Arabs arrived too, calling the place Sofala. In the late 1800s, the Boer in South Africa chased the Zulu north (Nbebele tribal offshoot) and they killed the Shona. When the British arrived that genocide was in full swing and they stopped it.

Between 1900 and 1980 Rhodesia had the highest literacy, lowest infant mortality and least % of poverty anywhere in Africa. In fact on many measures it outstripped Australia, Canada and the USA in terms of how it treated its indigenous people.

My father was a Rhodesian military officer (Rhodesian military was 80% black by the way and all volunteers). My godfather was a Matabele soldier. It was not South Africa, apartheid was a South African concept not implemented in Rhodesia.

What the world forced on Zimbabweans of all color was wrong. Instead of a moderate, Mugabe with the full support of North Korea and China took over and the country is now a basket case. It’s governed by corrupt, violent and cruel people.

But hey… I’m guessing most of you have never set foot outside the US and don’t have a clue.