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Wars of the Weavers

Wars of the Weavers

Jane Argall
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On 11 November 1965, Prime Minister Ian Smith cut the Rhodesian state’s ties with Britain by declaring Unilateral Declaration of Independence. At that time, Deirdre Davies, the first of three children is born to Beverley Davies who lives with her husband in the house next door to her parents, Nana and Grandpa Weaver.
The Weavers are a white Rhodesian family living in the shadow of Cecil John Rhodes’ grandiose, imperialist scheme to establish British rule across Africa. Racist in their attitudes, blinkered by the white Rhodesian government’s determination to clutch onto power, they live out their lives in Bulawayo, often gripped by the growing tensions and fears in the land.
The small details of family life – its joys, its strains – are played out against the background of the rumbling civil war building in Rhodesia. Socio-political commentary leaks from media broadcasts filtering into the Weaver home, from the bar banter in white social circles and from the ways in which lives are affected and relationships sundered, by the call on white citizens to defend their government’s position.
The transition to majority rule in Zimbabwe is soon followed by bitter internecine struggles and, increasingly, violent attacks on those who continue to live on ‘white’ family farms.
Language
English
Pages
251
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
SLA Hunt
Release
August 12, 2015

Wars of the Weavers

Jane Argall
0/5 ( ratings)
On 11 November 1965, Prime Minister Ian Smith cut the Rhodesian state’s ties with Britain by declaring Unilateral Declaration of Independence. At that time, Deirdre Davies, the first of three children is born to Beverley Davies who lives with her husband in the house next door to her parents, Nana and Grandpa Weaver.
The Weavers are a white Rhodesian family living in the shadow of Cecil John Rhodes’ grandiose, imperialist scheme to establish British rule across Africa. Racist in their attitudes, blinkered by the white Rhodesian government’s determination to clutch onto power, they live out their lives in Bulawayo, often gripped by the growing tensions and fears in the land.
The small details of family life – its joys, its strains – are played out against the background of the rumbling civil war building in Rhodesia. Socio-political commentary leaks from media broadcasts filtering into the Weaver home, from the bar banter in white social circles and from the ways in which lives are affected and relationships sundered, by the call on white citizens to defend their government’s position.
The transition to majority rule in Zimbabwe is soon followed by bitter internecine struggles and, increasingly, violent attacks on those who continue to live on ‘white’ family farms.
Language
English
Pages
251
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
SLA Hunt
Release
August 12, 2015

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