Unconfirmed: IAN SMITH passed away?

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chickyboo222

Where do people get their answers from? Wow some people can wear blinkers.

Yes he is dead, died in his home in Cape Town at the age of 88. Its not his fault Zim is the way it is today, its is totally BOBs doing. I guess he was a great man coz Zim used to be great too.

cheri

It is sad and if he was still the leader in Zimbabwe it would still be the place it was and it's own people would not flee or be refugees

MarkEverest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7104552.stm

If I didn't know better I would think Mugabe had him killed. He seems to survive whilst all others perish in that country. He is worse, much worse than Saddam was, but there's no oil there, is there?

T.I

I saw it on the news this morning. Apparently Mugabe said that Smith wouldn't be missed-not in a thousand years. Mugabe is really a bitter old man!

Android

He's really dead - saw it on the BBC today. He was 81. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Rhodesia was the coolest sounding name for a country though - sounds like another word for paradise.

Tim D

Wikipedia seems to think so..

ian s

http://news.google.co.uk/news?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB217GB217&oe=UTF-8&um=1&tab=wn&q="Ian+Smith"&btnG=Search+News
Lots of news reports

Commodore

Yes MJ, it's now confirmed that he died at a clinic near Cape Town. He was 88 and will always be remembered by alot of Rhodesians and Zimbabweans with mixed feelings. Alot of people thought that he 'sold the country down the line' whilst others felt that he was the worst oppressor in history.

telboy everton forever

just heard it on the news

bjmlewis

yes

I HATE CHIPS AND PASTA

Was he the racist one or non racist. Sorry for ignorance...

idac123

it is a pity it is not you that has passed away answers would then be free of a bigot that has got a fixation about south Africa

marine_biologist2005

not sure who he is!

i have heard of Ian Duncan Smith in th UK.

Whoever he was if it is true RIP

Magic Bus Driver

Well he must be close to 100 years 0ld by now.

He declared UDI from UK which led to the situation now.

Judge Mental

erm....no this was no great man, he was your average supremacist politician of the era, yes he has died at 88, *sigh* it's just a shame that he died feeing vindicated, Africa's so full of ironies!

DMan

Ian who?

Ewiase

he is dead. the story of Zimbabwe would have been different if he had not come into the scene. Mugabe would not have been a hero in the eyes of Zimbabweans and Southern Africans.

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