RHODESIAN HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 1978
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THE DEAFENING SILENCEThe Rhodesia Herald on September 1, 1978 reported the death of President John Wrathall. Yet within a couple of short days the attention of the country, and the world, was on the terrible events that took place near Kariba when the Air Rhodesia Viscount Hunyani was shot down by Joshua Nkomo's ZPRA forces, and the subsequent massacre of most of the survivors by those same terrorists.
Who will forget the sermon The Deafening Silence preached by Dean da Costa at the Memorial Service. Despite it all, the world did remain silent. Their hypocrisy and disdain for anything Rhodesian was laid bare for all to see.
Their death angered and spurred the nation. The subsequent raids into Zambia and the famous Green Leader recording of the Rhodesian Air Force shutting down Zambian airspace brought condemnation from the world that had been deafeningly silent the month before.
What a convoluted time and world it was. Right was wrong, wrong was right and people died as a result !
This weekend is the annual Labor Day weekend here in the USA when thoughts turn to school, cooler weather and the end of summer. Though the Victims Roll has been removed from the Anglican Cathedral in Harare and the incident has been erased from the nations official history, let is this weekend still remember those who died in a lonely TTL so many years ago.
Until next time
Dave Cushworth
THE DEAFENING SILENCE
Now with additional material and footage.
The video and audio documentary that records those fateful days of September 1978 and the subsequent strikes into Zambia against ZPRA.
The DVD & CD combo contains The Deafening Silence Sermon, the Raids into Zambia, an Interview with a survivor, the Green Leader audio, copies of The Rhodesia Herald and Scope Magazine and more
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