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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Zimbabwe: Ex-Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith Dies

Highlight: The man who infamously said there would never be majority rule in his lifetime lived almost a third of his life under a majority-rule elected Government.

Smith unilaterally declared independence from Britain on November 11, 1965. He then served as the rebel prime minister of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979 in his last-ditch effort to preserve white minority rule.

"I don't believe in black majority rule over Rhodesia," he defiantly proclaimed at the time, "not in a thousand years." Full Story

LOL! Muvafuka! Never say “never.”