To protect Rhodesia against an imagined invasion, convoys of troops were ordered to dig in along the Zambesi River border with Zambia, causing President Kenneth Kaunda nervously to declare a state ...

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 ...

Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe, who was once feted as an independence hero but whose 37-year rule left his country deeply divided and nearly broke, has died at the age of 95.

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Ian Smith — Rhodesia’s last white prime minister, whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war — died Tuesday.

Southern Rhodesia is rent with racial strife because it refuses to grant equal representation to blacks, has received no independence date. Of the trio, Northern Rhodesia’s future looks by far ...

Rhodesia’s white supremacists appealed to the white electorate by taking a stand against African ... US President Donald Trump stamped his inaugural speech with the promise of ‘America ...

Kirsty Coventry made history as the first female and first African president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in March. The 41-year-old Zimbabwean, who succeeded former President Thomas ...

The world of 35 years ago was a dramatically different place, and nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa. In the early 1970s, Portugal still clung to its colonies in Angola and Mozambique, South ...

1964 - Independence: Northern Rhodesia is renamed Zambia, President Kaunda rules for next 27 years. Late 1960s-1970s - Key enterprises nationalised.