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Former British settlers, usually white, known to talk constantly about their former colonial homes in Africa. "When we lived in Rhodesia". The original whenwes came from eastern Africa, mostly Kenya. Being largely of colonial origin, they went back to the United Kingdom or moved down to Rhodesia in the early 1960s. These whenwes had long stories about the expansive farms they owned and the lavish lifestyles they lived until the Mau Mau came and spoiled it all for them. The next wave of whenwes was from 1979 around the time of Zimbabwe's independence, and thousands of Rhodesian whenwes moved to South Africa, especially to Natal. At first well liked because they worked hard, whenwes soon became disliked for always talking about the life they had left behind in Ian Smith's Rhodesia. Since 1994 a new form of whenwe has been leaving South Africa for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Great Britain. Huge numbers of whenwes gather to talk about 'the good old days' when we lived in ...