He also drew attention to " Project Coast " , the name given to chemical and biological warfare programmes run by South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s . Project Coast included attempts to develop genetically engineered diseases and toxins that would affect blacks more than whites . The idea being to apply treatments to a population to correct any ethnic imbalance . Stamps ' suggestion that various epidemics in Rhodesia in the 1970s ( notably , an anthrax epidemic in 1978 ) may have been the result of a biological attack was widely disbelieved . A ' Southern African Research and Documentation Centre ' report has claimed an unnamed former senior member of the Rhodesian Security Forces , and Colonel Lionel Dyke , a Mugabe ally who participated in the Gukurahundi , stated that anthrax and cholera spores ( supplied by the South African Defence Force ) were deliberately spread in the TTLs during the closing stages of the civil war
Gukurahundi
Gukurahundi
Timothy Stamps