In 2000 Zimbabwe produced one third of all the tobacco consumed worldwide. All of it was sold in auctions like this.
And it is the considerable foreign exchange produced by this export crop which allowed Rhodesia, in the 1960s and '70s, to achieve a level of economic self-sufficiency as good as that of any country in Africa, including South Africa. This is the wealth that lay behind the lifestyles of the middle-class white population you see here. At the time this was filmed, the only issue the press were interested in was black-white inequality. See Kissinger's Diplomacy in Rhodesia.
And it is the considerable foreign exchange produced by this export crop which allowed Rhodesia, in the 1960s and '70s, to achieve a level of economic self-sufficiency as good as that of any country in Africa, including South Africa. This is the wealth that lay behind the lifestyles of the middle-class white population you see here. At the time this was filmed, the only issue the press were interested in was black-white inequality. See Kissinger's Diplomacy in Rhodesia.
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