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This is a list of periodicals published in Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe). It includes periodicals published in Southern Rhodesia, before Rhodesia declared independence.
The official name of the country, according to the constitution adopted concurrently with the UDI in November 1965, was Rhodesia. This was not the case under British law, however, which considered the territory's legal name to be Southern Rhodesia, the name given to the country in 1898 during the British South Africa Company's administration of the Rhodesias, and retained by the self-governing ...
Rhodesians Worldwide is a quarterly contact magazine for former Rhodesian citizens and other people who desire to maintain a link with Rhodesia. It is distributed in 60 countries. It is affiliated with many other Rhodesian diaspora organisations, in the UK, RSA, Australia and New Zealand.
The historian Donal Lowry endorsed Evans' views in 2007, noting also that "the Rhodesia Front sought to combine the notion that Rhodesia embodied the best of true Britishness, the notion that white Rhodesians were 'the sort of people who once made the "Great" of Britain', while turning to America as the only remaining champion of the 'Free ...
The song was written by Edmond shortly after Rhodesia had declared unilateral independence from the British Empire. [6] It referenced the calls in the international community of Rhodesians being referred to as "rebels" and "rogues" but also mentioned that Southern Rhodesia was founded by Englishman Cecil Rhodes. [4]
The designation "Southern Rhodesia" was first used officially in 1898 in the Southern Rhodesia Order in Council of 20 October 1898, which applied to the area south of the Zambezi, [10] and was more common after the BSAC merged the administration of the two northern territories as Northern Rhodesia in 1911. White settlers in Southern Rhodesia, 1922
Usage of the term Rhodie changed further in post-independence Zimbabwe. It began to be applied to a white Zimbabwean regardless of ethnic descent or country of origin. An image published in The Sunday Times Magazine in 1984 showed a poster near Harare reading "Private Party Invitation Only No Drugs No Rhodies No Racists No Troublemakers Allowed on These Premises".
John Alan Coey (November 12, 1950 – July 19, 1975) was a U.S. Marine who served in the Rhodesian Army as one of "the Crippled Eagles", a loosely organised group of U.S. expatriates fighting for the unrecognized government of Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) during that country's Bush War. A devout Christian, vitriolic anti-communist, he was the ...