Zimbabweans praise 'generous' Ian Smith By Stephen Bevan and a special correspondent in Shurugwi Last Updated: 8:27pm GMT 24/11/2007 For many black Zimbabweans, the death on Tuesday of Ian Smith, the last prime minister of white-ruled Rhodesia, was either to be welcomed or at best ignored. To them the 88-year-old, who turned his country into an international pariah with his unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965, was a racist and a tyrant who led his band of white supremacists into a bloody, and ultimately pointless, war against the black liberation movement. Ian Smith left Zimbabwe in 2005 But...