60 years ago today: Rhodesian UDI
On the 11th of November, 1965 – exactly 60 years ago today – the Rhodesian cabinet issued their Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Rhodesia’s Prime Minister, Ian Smith, made it clear that Rhodesia’s issue was with Harold Wilson’s godawful Labour Government, and that Rhodesia remained completely loyal to the Crown: Of course, white rule in Rhodesia
‘a standing army of around 1 million!’
I was recently made aware of this outlandish statement on one of the various Boer War Facebook sites: Of course, and as we all know, the True Believers simply make things up to try to keep their myths of victimhood stumbling on a little longer, so it is little surprise that Kobus felt the need
“But, but… Jeremy Corbyn would have supported the Boers!”
I was recently made aware that a Defender of Apartheid-era Myth posted this extraordinary claim online: The narrative that the Boer Republics fell into a trap set by the British to dismantle them is not purely a National Party or Afrikaner nationalist construct. One only has to read the copious amounts of British literature of
Another challenge for the True Believers…
As expected, almost a fortnight later, and still no True Believers have had the courage to accept my previous challenge, and to dispute any of the inconvenient facts I presented in a recent blog article: https://www.chrisash.co.za/2025/10/02/c-s-lewis-and-the-cowardice-of-the-true-believers/ In fact, none even dared take me on directly at all, despite the link to the blog being shared