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I usually read a RSA newspaper or 2 every week or three, what is published about it in Brit newspapers on line, and of course, get news from the family. I hadn't heard nor read about this incident, so wasn't questioning your veracity, just wanted to know where you got the info from.

Until 17+ years ago, the only thing I knew about South Africa was what I had learned in school, Chruchill's writings at the time of the Boer War, and yes, movies, which don't help much with factual events; though the one about Cecil Rhodes is interesting.

The major problem for those of us living in the West, is that we either get VERY biased and incorrect news, or the books we can find here are written by Brits or other Westerners. You get a whole different picture from reading books ONLY available in RSA, which thankfully I have been given as Christmas and other kinds of presents. It also helps, quite a lot, to read their on line newspapers and to talk with people from there. :-)

It is a very beautiful and rich in many diverse things nation. But Commies ruin EVERY nation they get control over, no matter what race they are!

Have you ever listen to any interviews by Karin Smith? She is in South Africa but was born in Rhodesia in the early 1950s. She is an excellent source of not only current times but the history there.

Her family fled Zimbabwe/Rhodesia when she was a small girl after her father who was doing neighborhood watch patrol ended up on their front door half dead one morning (and the family's dog's head was also left impaled on the fence). He took the family and went to Namibia (I believe) . There they were held hostage in their home for three days. Again he fled and took his family to South Africa.