Rhodesia's abundant mineral wealth led other ... greatly to his downfall was the decision in the mid-1970s by leaders in apartheid South Africa, particularly Prime Minister B.J. Vorster, to ...

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 ...

In 1968, the two leaders tried again on HMS Fearless, off Gibraltar. But there was no bridging the basic disagreement – over Rhodesia’s refusal to abandon UDI and its existing constitution and ...

In a right-wing revolt in 1964, Smith ousted the party leader for being too soft in dealings with Britain. Smith became premier of the British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia in April 1964.

For the first time since Labor took control of the government two years ago, the Conservatives were in open opposition on the Rhodesia question. Wilson, charged Tory Deputy Leader Reginald ...

Then, two weeks ago, Rhodesia’s high court ruled that the ... Prime Minister Wilson bitterly assailed the Rhodesian leaders as “essentially evil,” and in Rome Pope Paul VI deplored their ...

Author met some educated Africans, including Rev. Ndabaningi Daba, now the leader of one of Rhodesia's two banned nationalist parties. There was much anti-American feeling from both the whites ...

In the aftermath of World War II, colonial empires disintegrated. Rhodesia’s White leaders were alarmed by decolonization and independence struggles. Yet, unlike neighboring South Africa ...

a prominent industrialist and active leader in the Jewish community, has been named to serve as American specialist in small business practices to the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and ...

The former prime minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, has died aged 88 ... would have fared better under his leadership than that of Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party. Steeped in the colonial values of ...