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                                          Danielle`s Experiences of democracy......... by David Johnson I`m writing a biography for Danielle as she will never write it down herself, but some of the things that happened to her need recording otherwise no one will know what happened to her in her homeland of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Both her parents were French and lived on the Island of Mauritius. After World War 11 it was recommended to them that they move to Rhodesia as it was the land of opportunity.  They moved, then had three children and bought a house where they lived happily. Rhodesia was a British Colony and about a quarter of a million of the people who lived there were white. The rest were black. The white people were more wealthy than the black people and the country was ruled by a white government lead by Ian Smith who was an ex fighter pilot. Most...