Things to read?
On my Zimbabwe bookshelves are:
From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: The Politics of Transition by Henry Wiseman & Alastair Taylor (Pub. 1981 IPA) only provides the setting.
Managing Arms in Peace Processes: Rhodesia / Zimbabwe (Pub. UNIDR 1995) again setting and good on how relations between the Rhodesians (RSF), ZAPLA-ZIPRA and the Commenwealth Monitoring Force (CMF). Includes references to three interviews: Major General Acland (died 2006), Colonel J.B.A. Bailey and Brigadier Roderick-Jones (CMF became BMATT).
Transforming Settler States: Communal Conflict and Internal Security in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe by Ronald Weitzer (Pub. 1990) interesting wide study of the issues.
Weitzer refers to Gukurahundi: The Development of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces 1980-1987 by Mike Evans, in Strategic Review for Southern Africa 10 (May 1988). The author was in the RSF and ZNA so saw BMATT at first hand and is now in Australia (PM if email needed).
I think some articles, critical, appeared in the SADF literature too on Zimbabwe.
Finally, no I was not with BMATT in Namibia.
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