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Friends of Rhodesia were vital to our survival. Whether it was petrol from South Africa or volunteers to our Security Forces we were grateful for the help. As it was then, so it is now. Please give your support to these authors, manufacturers and suppliers listed below. They have supported the Rhodesian Services Association, so now it is our turn to support them. When buying from them please tell them that you heard about them from the Rhodesian Services Association. It is important, as some have pledged commissions to us from sales generated by our advertising and people always like to know where referrals have come from. Books
30 Degrees South Publishing www.30degreessouth.co.za supporting the Rhodesian Services Association at every opportunity. 30° South Publishers was launched in September 2005 with the express objective of servicing niche markets in the fields of southern African non-fiction, focusing primarily on history and memoirs. Books for Africa have supported the Rhodesian Services Association since 'day one'. Click on this link Books for Africa to view an extensive on-line catalogue including many book titles as well as DVDs. Books of Zimbabwe www.booksofzimbabwe.com stock numerous Rhodesian titles, some of which are hard to get or out of print. These include: Of Land and Spirits by Alan Thrush.
Alan Thrush served as an officer with the RAR. He was awarded the Bronze Cross of Rhodesia for gallantry. The book is described as a novel. Many of the names have been changed but this is most certainly a very accurate portrayal of the Bush War in Rhodesia during the mid 1970's through until the country became Zimbabwe. The book is well written and easy to pick up and put down without having to back track. The Sweaties by James Scott (ex-Insp John Larn 7727)
It is also the story of a country in its death throes. Former Inspector Peter Gibson, O.I.C Salisbury S.W.A.T 1978-1980 writes ' ... Gives an insight into the enormity of our situation at the time. Whoever you are, whatever you did, recapture it in this book. It deserves to be read.' The book is available only available from Books of Zimbabwe.
Dandy Agencies Pty Ltd www.dandy.co.za or email Jonathan Pittaway agencies@iafrica.com or phone +27 31 312 0674 or write to Box 78193, Avondale Road 4101, South Africa
• All three books include personal stories, nominal rolls, Rolls of Honour, citations, chronologies, orbats, photographs, tables, medals, badges, uniforms, documents, maps and militaria.
A Matter of Weeks Rather Than Months by JRT Wood
The impasse between Harold Wilson and Ian Smith; Sanctions, aborted settlements and war between 1965 - 1969. While the British and the Rhodesian whites attempted to negotiate their future, the African nationalists were not content to await the outcome. They had already adopted the concept of the armed struggle as the route to power and, sponsored by the Communist Bloc, its surrogates and allies, they began a series of armed incursions from their safe haven in Zambia. As yet, however, they lacked willing recruits or a population that welcomed their call for revolution. As A Matter of Weeks shows, their campaign was a failure but they would learn from their mistakes as the already over-stretched Rhodesian forces would discover in the 1970's. For more information and orders www.jrtwood.com A Martyr Speaks - Journal of the late John Alan Coey
John Coey was an American soldier who served in the SAS and Rhodesian Light Infantry during the Bush War in Rhodesia. He was one of a total of 5 Americans killed in action in Rhodesia. John Coey kept a detailed journal which his mother has now published. The Coey's are devout Christians and this is a point of focus in this book. John fought in Rhodesia to defend Christian freedom and when you see the mess that is now Zimbabwe you recognise the sacrifice that men like John made.
A Walk Against The Stream by Tony Ballinger (sb) 471 pages, plenty of B& W photos This is a true story that revolves around a young man called up to do his National Service (Intake 152) in war torn Rhodesia in the late 1970's. As the winds of change swept down Africa in the early sixties, a lone nation resisted tyranny. This is one of many stories set against the background of war in Rhodesia. The author's army posting is to one of the country's premier tourist resorts and it is there that he falls in love with a young croupier from a nearby Casino. The story centres on their relationship and the challenges they face as the war rages around them and the village they live in. It is a passionate embrace of a first love and a lost love. Of wasted youth and blood spilled on the dry African soil. A fascinating insight into the life of two young people brought together by love and war in a truly magnificent continent. Order direct from Tony Ballinger tony@ballinger5422.freeserve.co.uk Books by David Lemon Never Quite A Soldier - A Policeman's War 1971 - 1983 David served in the BSAP as a uniformed policeman holding a number of posts in Kariba, Marandellas and Macheke. He transferred to the Black Boots for a couple of years and finally ended up back in Marandellas in uniform when the country became Zimbabwe. His first book 'Never Quite a Soldier is an excellent record and very well written. He has gone on to published a number of books which record his life and travels in Africa Please email David at Lemonfolk@aol.com to order direct from him or visit his website www.elephantlemon.com or from www.amazon.com When you read a book by Heather Powell the problems of the world disolve. She has a calming influence that should be bottled. She may have been a saint or suchlike in another life, who knows. All I know is that you should read her books. To order email powellh@acr.net.au Tsanga - Place of Reeds, Place of Healing Heather's first book based largely on her time working with Dick and Anne Paget at Tsanga Lodge, Rhodesia's most sucessful rehabilitation unit. Most of us knew someone who went through Tsanga Lodge. Heather has produced a wonderful record of her time there providing an insight into what our friends went through at Tsanga and how their lives were improved by the wonderful people who ran Tsanga. This books is well written and highly recommended. Price approx Aus$25 incl postage makes it a great buy.
Uncertain Genes - Humour in the Life of a Batty Aunt Her latest book and essentially a biography in which she teaches us to find humour even in the darkest hour. Her statement "If it is true that we learn from our mistakes - then I must be getting a fantastic education" sets the scene for another wonderful book.
Books by Prop Geldenhuys Four books of note for anyone interested in the Rhodesian Air Force. For more details and how to purchase go to www.pey.co.za or write to pey@lantic.net These books are an amazing historical record.
Baboons on the Verandah by C.W. "Duke" Acheson is now available at www.dukesrhodesia.co.za Visit the site and enjoy an excerpt of Baboons On The Verandah. See pictures and read Duke's biography. You can also order on line or contact Duke's daughter Delite at email samdelit@mweb.co.za
Book Bibliography: Often hilarious and moving with an informative account of the political situation of that era in southern Africa and the changes yet to come. Black and white photographs depict the life and times 'he' writes about.
Bound For Africa by Douglass H. Hubbard Jr. "Bound for Africa is a particularly timely book about an important continent which the United States has, until recently, largely ignored. An almost Kiplingesque tale of an American serving in a counterinsurgency role at the end of white rule in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and the beginnings of the murderous misgovernment of Robert Mugabe, the book contains valuable insights into Africa and lessons which are directly applicable to today's Global War on Terrorism." Rear Admiral T. A. Brooks, U.S. Navy (Ret.), former Director of Naval Intelligence.
This is the story of the author's introduction to Africa at a time when much of the continent was in the grips of Cold War skirmishes between the free world and the communist forces of China and the Soviet Union. Frayed from three years of service during the Vietnam War, Hubbard travelled to Africa intending to become a rural policeman in a quiet area of what was then Rhodesia. The counterinsurgency war flared soon after, a conflict that bore many of the same characteristics of the country he had just left. Hubbard describes his assimilation into the police force and into Rhodesian society and he recounts the challenges and satisfaction of leading and training young Africans. This is a very personal story of the frustrations he faced and of the attitudes and spirit of the nation's racially mixed security force. Douglass H. Hubbard Jr. is a consultant who has spent more than three decades working with the disadvantaged in Asia and in Africa. He is also the author of Special Agent, Vietnam, a memoir of his years in counterintelligence for the NIS in Vietnam (Today known as NCIS). For orders please email doug@awanipress.com or write to Bound for Africa, 230-C Walnut Street, #500, Chico, CA My Mothers Kitchen was a Baobab - The Story of a Rhodesian Family by Ben Bezuidenhout
Now in its third printing, this book is an autobiographical romance. Ben Bezuidenhout expresses with affection and deep love, the natural and human environment in which he grew up. Here is a narrative of courage and struggle, its ambience one of man's interaction with people and nature. Living in the colony of Southern Rhodesia, Ben's family found themselves functioning as pioneers in a country won for imperialism by questionable consultation and aggressive conquest. Farms needed development, roads had to be built, water systems established, medical facilities made available, education offered to as many as possible and the essential infrastructure of a modern state provided for all. This adventure works itself through the anecdotal reminiscence of memory. It is laced with humour, acute observation and entertaining appreciation of characters whose work-ethic became second nature. Enterprise and entrepreneurship became their watchwords long before the latter term became trendy. Whatever the political and moral imperatives of the day, and the latter-day judgement of the twenty first century on the 'scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, time and events have moved on. This book consciously avoids a political interpretation of the colonial experience in Rhodesia, its fifteen years of unilateral 'independence' and recent developments. Its focus is human endeavour, response, suffering and the struggle to respect and relate to an environment rich in natural beauty and challenge. To order and for more information on this and other books by this author go to this page www.rhodesianbooks.co.za
Paget's Progress: A Tale of High Adventure and Low Salaries by Dick Paget
Paget's varied career has included: working as an army medic for the Rhodesian Army Medical Corps, running a rehabilitation center for army casualties at Tsanga Lodge in Inyanga located in the Rhodesian Eastern Highlands, helping outward bound centers and managing a security firm in Malawi. Experiencing these diverse occupations and the movement between them, readers will surely tune into the humor, excitement and pathos of Paget's life journey that continues even today. He might have been able to stay in Africa for a time, running the rehabilitation center he and his wife, Anne, started for wounded army veterans, but when Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe, he changed the fundamental attitude toward both the type of rehabilitation the Pagets were administrating and the general politics of the nation, threatening to jail those who opposed his decrees. Paget had little choice but to flee with his family to South Africa, where he lived on what seemed like scraps. As riveting as it is heartfelt, Paget's Progress is a non-stop rollercoaster ride that will plunge readers into the full extent of human experience and enrich their understanding of the world. It is available from www.amazon.com and/or www.authorhouse.co.uk Rhodesian Medal Roll - Honours and Decorations of the Rhodesian Conflict 1970 -1981 by David Saffery
Over 25 years since the last Rhodesian medals were awarded, comes your chance to own the definitive roll of recipients of Rhodesian honours and decorations. Rhodesia Medal Roll is the first book to list every gazetted recipient of Rhodesian honours and decorations: from the introduction of the Rhodesian honours system in 1970 to its abolition in October 1981. It includes over 1,700 previously unpublished awards that do not appear in Contact and Contact II. The book also details the very last gallantry awards, 24 honours including four awards of the Silver Cross of Rhodesia and ten awards of the Bronze Cross of Rhodesia, that were issued under Army General Orders in June 1980, and which have never been published to the general public before. For orders go to www.jeppestown.com The Seven Watchmen by David Ruppert
The book is set in a time when southern Africa teeters on a precipice. In Zimbabwe, government-orchestrated thugs engage in ethnic cleansing while neighbouring countries and Western powers turn a blind eye. But when a Zimbabwean minister is murdered 5000 miles from home, the British and American governments must scramble for political cover. Now the question is: who is responsible? And in Washington, D.C., a retired army general and young lawyer discover themselves embroiled in an international conspiracy behind the answer: at the highest levels of governments, across the globe, and within an elite secret society known only as The Seven Watchmen. Orders from David Ruppert at rupedf72@comcast.net or from www.crestpublishing.co.za Goods Buckles and Tees www.bucklesandtees.co.nz
Mike Vivier in Blenheim, NZ sells a wide variety of belt buckles and te-shirts as well as biltong and droewors in various styles and flavours. For sales generated by this advert Mike will make a donation to the Rhodesian Services Association. 100g Traditional Biltong Sticks and Peri Peri Biltong Sticks (99% dry) $11 Please email Mike at mike_jovivier@xtra.co.nz with your order or query if you cannot do it on the website www.bucklesandtees.co.nz and remember to say you heard it from the Rhodesian Services Association. Bullion Wire Blazer Badges made by Ken Palmer. All Rhodesian units represented. High quality craftsmanship, reasonable prices. Contact Ken Palmer by email faggamoto@optusnet.com.au or KPalmer@macmahon.com.au or ring mob. 04 0777 5259
Courteney Boots "It was during the Rhodesian campaign of the seventies that I, and most other able-bodied men were spending a large part of our lives in the bush. Companions would so often say to me, "Where did you get your boots? I want a pair like that." So I made a pair for them. I'm a third generation shoe maker and designer, and at that time had been making mainstream footwear for over forty years. Eventually I established a modest workshop of my own making classic hunting boots the traditional way - as my father and grandfather did before me - with the old-fashioned values of hardiness and durability as well as comfort. Because they just don't make them like that anymore." John Rice the founder & CEO of The Courteney Boot Company. Safari Supply will donate 5% of every purchase made, that is generated by this advert, to the Rhodesian Services Association. You need to use this link below as it is connected to their website and will ensure we are credited for this. Your purchase helps us to develop our museum displays. We thank Grant Febery of The Safari Supply Company, PO Box 34 974, Birkenhead, Auckland 0746, New Zealand email grant@safarisupply.co.nz mobile +64 21 854 188 for his support.
Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID Limited Edition Prints
This unique limited edition print depicts two MK IX Spitfires of 237 (Rhodesia) Squadron RAF flying over Tuscany, Italy. F/O I. D. Smith was flying MK227 on strafing missions just prior to being shot down over Northern Italy. On sale are 720 Gallery Quality Prints individually numbered and signed by Ian Smith and the artist. Price R1,980 per print (Approx US$270 or £130) Also available are 40 Publishers Proofs individually numbered and signed by Ian Smith and the artist. Price R 2,700 per print (Approx US$360 or £175) These are nearly sold out so be quick with your order! Price includes: This price is an introductory offer specifically to Rhodesians. In due course the Gallery Quality Prints will be advertised in international aviation art magazines for $375. 10% of sales will be donated to various Rhodesian associations. To support the Rhodesian Services Association, please ensure that you nominate us on the order form. Thank you. To order: Heritage Giftware - owned by Steve Geach and family in New Zealand. Manufacturers and suppliers of a wide range of quality handcrafted wooden products. See www.heritagegiftware.co.nz for more information. K. C. Graphics in the UK are printers of stationary (wedding and business) as well as manufacturing and engraving promotional and gift items which includes a range of Rhodesian related goods. For more information see www.kcgraphics.biz Khukuri Imports Ltd - directors Colin Logie, Hugh Bomford and Tony Fraser are importers of top quality, hand made Khukuris (kukuris), the traditional Gurkha knife, from Nepal. For more information see www.khukuriimports.co.nz Rhodesian Forces Roll of Honour on CD For more information use this link www.flf-rasa.org Background The political party that took over the government of Zimbabwe in 1980 was determined to denigrate Rhodesians, in particular those who had fought and died in the service of Rhodesia from November 1965. Therefore there is no memorial in Zimbabwe to Government Security Force members who died during the so-called Bush War. The Flame Lily Foundation set up the Rhodesian Forces Memorial Project to honour Rhodesians who died in the service of their country between 1965 and 1980. The intention is to provide a permanent memorial and, in so doing, to produce a comprehensive Roll of Honour of Rhodesia's war dead, in the absence of an officially published record. Research Separate Rolls of Honour The Mobile Memorial For orders click on the disc below or write to Gus Mason gus@gusmason.co.za or John Redfern rasa@iafrica.com
Movies & Music Piracy of Rhodesian material is an unpleasant problem. The people below are family based businesses who work hard and make sacrifices in order to provide quality products to the public. The true Rhodesian spirit was to support your mates. Do the right thing and be true to yourself and the Rhodesian Spirit - don't copy and reject pirated disks. John Edmond and Roan Antelope Music www.johnedmond.co.za also includes Wrex Tarr and Clem Tholet titles
Msasa Enterprises For high quality DVDs and Music visit www.rhodesianvideos.mazoe.com or write to msasasa@iafrica.com
The New Zealand Calendar Company Ltd (owners Bryan and Nancy Tichborne) are specialist calendar publishers and Nancy is a noted artist with paintings for sale. The have a comprehensive website at www.watercolours.co.nz Bryan Tichborne (an original 'Saint' - RLI ) will contribute 10% to our association - from any sales generated by our advertising. NOTE - When ordering, in the 'Special Comments' box please add 'RSO' (Rhodesian Service Organisation). This way Bryan will know that you found your way there from our recomendation. Support boutique NZ wine and olive oil products online. Tony Gibbs, proprietor of this website and business will contribute to our association from sales generated by our advertising. NOTE - When ordering, in the 'Special Comments' box please add 'RSO' (Rhodesian Service Organisation) this way Tony will know that you found your way there from our recomendation.
Our Regular Suppliers These are businesses who support us with their high quality goods and services. They give us discounted prices where possible and above all even though our orders are generally small they provide us with quick and friendly service. We recommend them to you. A2Z Imaging in New Zealand are a family business specialising in high quality photography and image manipulation, airbrushing and digital printing - wide format on canvas, poster and vinyl. For more information see www.a2zimaging.co.nz Badges on Mugs in England supply tea/coffee mugs with a wide range of Rhodesian badges and images on. You can expect excellent service from them. Use this link www.badgesonmugs.co.uk then the 'Rhodesia' tab on the left hand side. Their site and it is very easy to navigate and the purchase process is very simple. You can email them on sales@badgesonmugs.co.uk When ordering please insert RSA in the Voucher Box which is directly above the box that asks for your email address. This means that Badges on Mugs will make a donation to us of £1.50 for every mug sold this way. Classic Flyers NZ are not only a museum complex where you can get flights in classic fixed wing and helicopters but there is a licensed cafe and gift shop as well as conference and function facility catering for up to 500 guests. They are also the venue for the anual Tauranga City Airshow D Day Commemoration. For more information see www.classicflyersnz.com Sew Hot Monograms 15C Portside Drive, Mount Maunganui, New Zealand phone (07) 575 0779 or email sewhot@xtra.co.nz Blair, Sonja and the team at Sew Hot have always been our first choice for all our embroidery requirements because they provide exceptional quality and service. |
