By David Coltart
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This was one of the few points of agreement between his government and the right-wing opposition. In November 1961 the government banned the NDP. Nationalist leaders responded by forming a new political party, which for the first time bore what was then for whites an emotive and radical name – Zimbabwe. They called the party the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). At the same time that nationalist views were hardening, so the right wing among whites was getting better organised. Previously, the right wing had been disjointed because many of its leaders had strongly differing views on policy.
The UFP used it to warn whites of the need to embrace change in Africa to prevent violence; the RF exploited fears of nationalist violence and racial integration; nationalists fomented a pattern of violence in black townships, some of it gruesome, causing unprecedented fear among black and white people. For example, in October 1962 a black police reservist was burnt alive after petrol was poured over him. Acts of sabotage commenced, including the burning of a massive swathe of forest estate in the Eastern Districts.
Rhoda’s family were neither wealthy enough to lead such a group nor poor enough to need such indenture. Rather, they joined a joint stock party that was granted assets and land as a group. For many in Rhoda’s party, the voyage was the end of the journey; measles raged and eighteen children and four adults died before reaching Africa. The family cleared a plot of land on the Riet River near Bathurst, just south of the present Grahamstown. They called their farm Standerwyck, after Standerwyck Court near Tytherington, a village in Somerset close to the Wiltshire border.