Smith & Mugabe: Who is the better man?

The commentators and obituarists all opine that without Ian Smith, who died yesterday, there would have been no Robert Mugabe. Yet a close observer of Rhodesia, Judith Todd, daughter of one of Smith's predecessors and no friend of Smith, when asked if events had not proved him right, admitted: "You have to say they called it right."

Posted on The Huntsman.