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Show The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD i Ly White Africans halfcentury-old tapestries Leave Continent a Natural History Museum. Sunday,June 18, 2000 Soret see es Al7 = 9 bacco farming: A white man se te Mol ie te oe : Rhodesian inspects a tobacco leaf For Better Future ‘tis wite tooks on and his son myewit a toy. In the back4 ground, : blacks harvest the leaves : ee andMaize carry farming: heavy sacksA towhite trucks.man ae from Portugal 185,MorambicanleaderS amora workers harvest and process the i independence i in feeds his frolicking dogs as black is it right to claimfast, fair service? Mugabe to keep his whites. “You Mining: A white man superwill need them,”he said. * = -yises black workers sifting rock. The white colonizers built the roads and dams, the legal and health systems, the banks and big “We were living in a bit of a fool's paradise, because nobody believed that black people would businesses. But they did little to prepare the blacks to take over, even denying many of them the have political aspirations,” says RoyStephens,aretiredminingand insurance executive. political clout diminished after independence, but they retained a disproportionate control of the economy — a disparity that has alienated manyblacks. “Provided that blacks feel they only have political power and are excluded from economic power, the material success of the [white] minority will never be viewed as entirely legitimate,” says econo- country had 270,000 whites. Twenty years later, almost threequarters are gone. “It’s very difficult being a white African,” says Tessa Paul, now 55 and living in London.“It’s a mixture of guilt and love ofthe country you grew upin,andit’s no longer the country you grew upin.It would be very difficult to go back to Zimbabwe. Would myfellow Zim- Growth Namibia magazine. In South Africa, racial divisions did not die when political apartheid ended in 1994. The country now suffers from a form of economic apartheid, with many doubtit.” But many whites remained Rhodesians in mind — theycalled themselves Rhodies — and never really became Zimbabweans,says Eppel, the Bulawayo author. Tight to higher education. Their mist Rubin Sherbourne, editor of When Mugabe took over, the babweans welcome me? I highly whites living in exclusive, highwalled suburbs where few blacks “They've receded into enclaves, little Rhodesian enclaves,” says can afford homes. Many South African whites have stopped worrying about political years of relativeinstability peace’ after undersixmajority black rule. It is crime and dwindling economic fighicn fit opportunities on oral Fasvel that lad Eppel, 52. “They are Rhodies, and they've channeled their nationalism into sports clubs, into churches, Same into making money.” BOVE SUAHe ment's offer of racial reconciliation, while others embraced tal their tow eeeaitees bal fouthet when w ) t th ta ung. i Sah ‘After the fire destroyed our homeand wefiled ourclaim, it was clear that Farm: Bureau Bisa company that does things . = sete right. We initially felt overwhelmingpanic andconfusion, but our Farm Bureau adjuster gave us mi 5 i ives back bacl dogether: pei ace of mind andhelpedusput the pieces of ourlives manyto begin searching for opportunities overseas. The history of white Rhodesian life is embroidered on a series of not embrace them back. “You can't say it’s notfair, be_cause it’s basically correcting the balance,” Eppel says. 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