House is right, most whites weren't living in present day Zimbabwe until the late 1890s and after. If I remember correctly, the white population was never more than 8 percent of the country's total population, which is less than even South Africa.
However, I'd have to argue that you can still be a native of Zimbabwe while still being white. I mean, I was born and raised as a Zimbabwean. Of course at the same time, the mere fact that a person can be a white Zimbabwean native shouldn't justify minority rule or legitimacy to preferential white treatment, as politburo player seems to think.
There are native Africans in these photos, you just do not accept them because they do not 'dominate' the scenery.
I don't think he 'accepts' your implications from the photos because there's a total of two blacks in all the photos you posted. If you disagree with the fact that there was racial segregation and government-sponsored white empowerment in Rhodesia, than you have some serious catching up to do.
What does it take for you liberals to consider an African country successful? A complete absence of white Europeans???
First of all, you can drop the word liberal. You throw that around a little to much. Instead of rhetoric let's have intelligent debate please.
Secondly, to answer your question, what people want to see in a successful African country is economic empowerment for the majority of its population. White minority rule in Rhodesia and South Africa only empowered a small portion of the population, the whites. Therefore, these countries are failures. The vast majority of these countries' populations remained poor and impoverished.
I bet your average Rhodesian native ate better than his 2010 Zimbabwe contemporary.
This is correct. But that statement doesn't justify minority rule. It helps to give illegitimacy to Mugabe's rule, but the mere fact that Mugabe is a terrible president and dictator doesn't justify a minority rule system that treated people unequally according to their skin color.
I was surprised by how calm, safe, and CLEAN Salisbury looks!!!
And this was during the height of the Bush War, Rhodesia was hardly calm and safe.
Try not to learn the history of a nation by looking at a few photos.