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-A '''Rhodie bar''' is an establishment frequented by ''[[Rhodie]]s'' ([[white people|white]] residents of the former country of [[Rhodesia]], now [[Zimbabwe]]).<ref>{{cite news|last=Longworth|first=Peter|title=Dark hearts|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/sep/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview4|accessdate=9 August 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=11 September 2004|quote=For the leftovers of Ian Smith's killing machine who people Fuller's new book, the past is all there is. Yesterday's world had rules of engagement. Remaindered from the Rhodesian war, all they have now is their ghosts inadequately repressed by extreme religion, alcohol, purple pills or a penchant for tearing down bars. Don't believe these guys don't exist. Spot them at the end of a Harare Rhodie bar or even worse stumbling towards you across the terrace of a bush hotel and it's time to grab the bill.}} Review: ''Scribbling the Cat'' by [[Alexandra Fuller]].</ref> The term ''Rhodie'' implies an attachment to the former country, and is often used as a pejorative.<ref>{{cite news|last=Unendoro|first=Benedict|title=ZIMBABWE: Poor whites hit hard times|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220214515/http://www.theshebeen.org/governance-democracy/85-zimbabwe-poor-whites-hit-hard-times.html|publisher=The Shebeen|date=16 August 2007|url=http://www.theshebeen.org/governance-democracy/85-zimbabwe-poor-whites-hit-hard-times.html|archivedate=20 February 2008|accessdate=9 August 2013|newspaper=[[Institute for War and Peace Reporting|IWPR]]|quote='Rhodies' – as whites who long for the old pre-Zimbabwe days of white-ruled Rhodesia are known – called such white people '******boeties' [****** lovers] and despised them.}}</ref>
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-Rhodie bars are often decorated with [[Rhodesiana]], particularly memorabilia of the [[Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence|UDI]] era and the [[Rhodesian Bush War]].
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-Such establishments, in pubs, restaurants and hotels, can be found in most Zimbabwean towns and there are several in [[South Africa]]n towns such as [[Cape Town]] where concentrations of [[Rhodesian diaspora|Rhodesian expatriates]] live. There is at least one claimed Rhodie bar in England.<ref>{{cite web|title=Welcome to The Crown Hotel|url=http://www.crown-hotel.info/the-crown-hotel.html|accessdate=9 August 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070323220549/http://www.crown-hotel.info/index.html|archivedate=23 March 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
-==References==
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-[[Category:Types of drinking establishment]]
-[[Category:Food and drink in Zimbabwe]]
-[[Category:Zimbabwean culture]]
-[[Category:Rhodesian diaspora]]