| |
| | Chronology Foundations Of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe History Timeline |
 | | In 1965 the white-dominated Rhodesia Front administration of Prime Minister Ian Smith made an illegal unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) for Rhodesia from the United Kingdom. |
 | | Later in 1979, all parties to the conflict, including the Patriotic Front, participated in the Lancaster House Conference in London, which agreed an independence settlement in December 1979. |
 | | Elsworth was an MP in Ian Smith's Rhodesia Front, who, in 1982, had broken with Smith and became an ally of Robert Mugabe, who appointed him to Parliament in 1987, where he served until 1990. |
| zimbab.net (3764 words) |
|