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On 4 July 1964, ZANLA insurgents carried out an ambush that resulted in the killing of a white foreman from Silverstreams Wattle Company, Andrew Oberholzer, while he was travelling with his wife and family on a main road. After Mr Oberholzer's death, the attackers attempted to set his body and car alight.
The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Rhodesian Civil War, Second Chimurenga as well as the Zimbabwe War of Independence, [11] was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 [n 1] in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe).
Rhodesia (/ r oʊ ˈ d iː ʒ ə /, / r oʊ ˈ d iː ʃ ə /), [1] was a self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa. Until 1964, the territory was known as Southern Rhodesia, and less than a year before the name change the colony formed a part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and hosted its capital city, Salisbury.
Killed by one of his victim's father: Unknown Police Officer [n 1] ... 1964: Transvaal Province ... Rhodesia: 4. 7. F: Sentenced to death and executed
Southern Rhodesia at the 1964 Summer Olympics This page was last edited on 21 February 2020, at 02:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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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).
[28] The white community in Rhodesia heard the news with fury, and many turned their minds to exacting retribution for what they and many others saw as an act of terrorism. [5] The prominent Indian-Rhodesian Gulab family was particularly affected by the incident, having lost eight members in the attack. [ 38 ]