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  2. The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith

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    In the book, Ian Smith sought to explain the reasons why his government made its Unilateral Declaration of Independence, and how Rhodesia coped in the face of sanctions and the Rhodesian Bush War until the pressures forced him and his government to accede to the wishes of his adversaries. Smith points to the chaotic situation in Zimbabwe after ...

  3. Rhodesia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. History of Rhodesia (1965–1979) - Wikipedia

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    History Today (Jan 1968), Vol. 18 Issue 1, p45-52 online; Sachikonye, Lloyd M. When a state turns on its citizens: 60 years of institutionalised violence in Zimbabwe (African Books Collective, 2011). Sibanda, Eliakim M. The Zimbabwe African People's Union, 1961–87: a political history of insurgency in Southern Rhodesia (Africa World Press, 2005).

  5. Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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    The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1953–63). Believing full dominion status to be effectively symbolic and "there for the asking", [17] Prime Minister Godfrey Huggins (in office from 1933 to 1953) twice ignored British overtures hinting at dominionship, [19] and instead pursued an initially semi-independent Federation with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, two colonies directly ...

  6. Ian Smith - Wikipedia

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    It astonished Wilson, who called on the people of Rhodesia to ignore the post-UDI government, which he described as "hell-bent on illegal self-destroying". [139] Following orders from Whitehall and the passage of the Southern Rhodesia Act 1965, the colonial Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs formally sacked Smith and his Cabinet, accusing them of ...

  7. Geneva Conference (1976) - Wikipedia

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    The Geneva Conference (28 October – 14 December 1976) took place in Geneva, Switzerland during the Rhodesian Bush War.Held under British mediation, its participants were the unrecognised government of Rhodesia, led by Ian Smith, and a number of rival Rhodesian black nationalist parties: the African National Council, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa; the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe, led ...

  8. Politics of Rhodesia - Wikipedia

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    Rhodesia had limited democracy in the sense that it had the Westminster parliamentary system with multiple political parties contesting the seats in parliament, but as the voting was dominated by the White settler minority, and Black Africans only had a minority level of representation at that time, it was regarded internationally as a racist country.

  9. Propaganda in the Rhodesian Bush War - Wikipedia

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    As the Rhodesian government prepared for autonomy from Britain, it began to limit foreign communication. It started a weekly radio broadcast prepared by the Ministry of Information, the content of which was "selective and slanted reporting [that] attempted to build up a black picture of the independent African states to the north, combined with an image of Rhodesia, South Africa and the ...