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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 ...
The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second Chimurenga as well as the Zimbabwean War of Independence, [13] was a civil/ anti-communist conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 [n 1] in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe). [n 2][24] The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the ...
Politics of Rhodesia. A referendum on the status of Southern Rhodesia was held in the colony on 27 October 1922. Voters, almost all of them white, were given the options of establishing responsible government or joining the Union of South Africa. [1] After 59% voted in favour of responsible government, it was officially granted on 1 October ...
History of Zimbabwe. The history of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979 covers Rhodesia 's time as a state unrecognised by the international community following the predominantly white minority government's Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11 November 1965. Headed by Prime Minister Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Front remained in government until 1 ...
v. t. e. Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was an English politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (known as Southern Rhodesia until October 1964 and now known as Zimbabwe) from 1964 to 1979. [n 2] He was the country's first leader to be born and raised in Rhodesia, and led the ...
Politics of Rhodesia. Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) was a statement adopted by the Cabinet of Rhodesia on 11 November 1965, announcing that Rhodesia (previously Southern Rhodesia) [n 1] a British territory in southern Africa that had governed itself since 1923, now regarded itself as an independent sovereign state.
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.
The colonial history of Southern Rhodesia is considered to be a time period from the British government 's establishment of the government of Southern Rhodesia on 1 October 1923, to Prime Minister Ian Smith 's unilateral declaration of independence in 1965. The territory of 'Southern Rhodesia' was originally referred to as 'South Zambezia' but ...