[4] Benson blamed the BBC, Wall Street banking interests, the government of the Soviet Union, and the World Council of Churches as drivers of a global conspiracy to wipe out his preferred nationalism.
He became chief assistant editor of the Rand Daily Mail; however, after he wrote an editorial in favour of fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, who was staying with him, he was sacked.
In Rhodesia, he wrote speeches for Smith, re-organized the once-neutral state information department into an active propaganda agency, served as state-empowered press censor, and spoke for the anti-communist Rhodesian Front.
[13][14] He produced a newsletter, Behind the News, and in the 1970s founded a fascist group called the National Forum,[6] and would head the South African chapter of the World Anti-Communist League.
Benson said these agencies were controlled by the "international capitalist-communist conspiracy", and that they were effectively foreign agents waging undeclared war on South Africa.