A small white minority seized control of Rhodesia. Tacit support and weak condemnations extended the harmful regime.

Whereas in the course of human affairs, history has shown that it may become necessary for a people to resolve the political affiliations which have connected them with another people and to assume ...

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Although Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence marks a turning point in the history of southern Africa, it is too soon to tell which way southern Africa has turned. Did UDI consolidate ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Ian Smith, the last white minority leader of Rhodesia, who vowed that blacks would not rule his country “in a thousand years,” died Tuesday in a clinic outside Cape Town, ...

On 11 November 1965, Ian Smith, prime minister of the British colony of Rhodesia, signed his country’s unilateral declaration of independence, giving birth to a new nation that would, rather ...

Brian Oliver was born in London in 1924, but after his father was called to work in Malaya for the Post Office he spent much of his early life abroad. After schooling in Scotland and England, Brian ...