Rhodesian White People's Party

The Rhodesian White People's Party (RWPP) was a Rhodesian neo-Nazi political party led by Ken Rodger. This movement was founded in Bulawayo on January 30, 1976, its initial goal was to oppose communism,[1] but it mainly inspired the American Nazi Party and later with it the National Socialist White People's Party.[2] It was outlawed in November 1976 by the government of Ian Smith for anti-Semitic incidents by US citizens who were members of the party against the Bulawayo Hebrew Congregation, among the expelled citizens is the neo-Nazi Harold Covington.[3][4] This political party was the only one of the World Union of National Socialists that was active in Africa.[5]

Ken Rodger in 1970

Rhodesian White People's Party
AbbreviationRWPP
PresidentKen Rodger
FoundedJanuary 30, 1976 (1976-01-30)
DissolvedNovember, 1976
IdeologyNeo-Nazism
Anti-communism
White nationalism
White supremacism
Antisemitism
International affiliationWorld Union of National Socialists

The party was opposed to the government of Ian Smith for his Zionist policies and defeatism in the Rhodesian Bush War, who considered him to be the country's greatest enemy instead of the ZANU guerrillas who were fighting against apartheid in Rhodesia.[2]

References
  1. Service, British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring (1976). Summary of World Broadcasts: Non-Arab Africa.
  2. CEDADE (1976). CEDADE Nº 73 (in Spanish). p. 8.
  3. Kaplan, Jeffrey (2000). Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-7425-0340-3.
  4. Wheaton, Elizabeth (1 April 2009). Codename Greenkil: The 1979 Greensboro Killings. University of Georgia Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8203-3148-5.
  5. Cadena, Ernesto (1978). La ofensiva neo-fascista. ISBN 978-84-7002-245-6.


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