Ebook: Rhodesian Black Behind Bars

"Rhodesian Black Behind Bars is the story of a responsible citizen with moderate views on the development of his country, and his treatment at the hands of a racist and oppressive police state.

Born and brought up at St Faith’s Mission in Southern Rhodesia, Didymus Mutasa first worked at the Mission Farm and then joined the Rhodesian civil service. By 1965, the year of UDI, he could see which way things were leading and he resigned to start the Cold Comfort Farm Society—a multi-racial venture in a separatist society.

As chairman of Salisbury Christian Action Group, and a member of the National Executive of the Red Cross Society of Rhodesia, a school manager of Nyafaru School and a director of the Nyafaru Development Company, he was anything but a ‘revolutionary’. However, he became involved in the dispute between the illegal regime and the Tangwena people. In 1970 the Government took the opportunity they had been looking for to close the ‘notorious’ multi-racial community at Cold Comfort Farm, expelling Guy Clutton-Brock and detaining, mainly in solitary confinement, Didymus Mutasa in Sionia Prison.

He was released at the end of 1972, but only on condition that he left the country. Since then, as a student at a British University, he has never ceased in his passionate struggle to bring justice for those still living under the rule of oppression."