Rhodesia in a sentence

Although Smith's declaration was not recognised by the United Kingdom nor any other power, Southern Rhodesia dropped the designation 'Southern', and claimed nation status as the Republic of Rhodesia in 1970.

At the time, some Rhodesians said the still embittered history between the British-dominated Rhodesia and the Afrikaner -dominated South Africa partly led South African government to withdraw its aid to Rhodesia.

Rhodesia The former Republic of Rhodesia used two WW2 British-style compressed asbestos fiber tags, a No. 1 octagonal (green) tag and a No. 2 circular (red) tag, stamped with identical information.

The 1961 Constitution governed Southern Rhodesia and independent Rhodesia up until 1969, using the Westminster Parliamentary System modified by a system of separate voter rolls with differing property and education qualifications, without regard to race.

While not officially recognising Rhodesia under Ian Smith, the government of António Salazar did permit Rhodesia to establish a representative mission in Lisbon, and permitted Rhodesian exports and imports through their colony of Mozambique.

Although the Order in Council of 1953 granted Barotseland a separate British protectorate status, the British Crown maintained its administration with Northern Rhodesia, making Barotseland a protectorate within another protectorate.

And for the record, it was White rulers in Rhodesia and South Africa (and by extension Namibia) that agreed to constitutional reform to shift to (non-White) majority rule that I supported.

During the struggle, Pheko was imprisoned for underground activities with the PAC’s armed wing, Poqo (later called the Azanian People’s Liberation Army), and was also detained by the settler colonial states of Rhodesia and Portuguese Mozambique.

His visit was in connection with the Commonwealth Conference held in Lagos on Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

Rhodes, instrumental in founding the British South Africa Company and the colonization of southern Africa, saw the territory of Rhodesia, (modern Zimbabwe and Zambia), named after him.

The British protectorate of Rhodesia, named after Cecil John Rhodes a miner and politician in southern Africa.

Fire crews were actively trying to protect homes along Rhodesia Avenue.

For example, it is a fact that Cross and the white Rhodesian business class prospered in Rhodesia because of assistance, which the Rhodesian state generously gave them through Rhodesian state enterprises.

He planned to import 150,000 white farmers from Rhodesia to further oppress the majority.

Indeed, in 1976, Secretary of State Kissinger had explicitly Prime Minister John Vorster that South Africa was “the next candidate” for sanctions unless it cut Rhodesia loose.

Rhodesia was an imagined Jim Crow paradise viewed from afar, long after the domestic system Byrd had long protected was in the dustbin of history.

She had a TV programme called Pfukumbwe on Rhodesia TV, which was the first to bring black children to Pockets Hill.

The former Foreign Affairs minister during the Zimbabwe-Rhodesia era David Mukome, has died aged 77. He succumbed to heart failure on Saturday and is set to be buried on Sunday at the Warren Hills Cemetry.

This young teenager would not have been comfortable under Rhodesia’s rule.

Wht were they doing there whn Rhodesia was under sanctions?