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	Rhodesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rhodesia was the name of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia after 1964.
		With regard to the latter, however, Northern Rhodesia was the wealthiest of the three member states (due to its vast copper mines) and actually contributed more to the overall building of infrastructure than the other two members.
		UDI was internationally condemned, and at the behest of Britain, Rhodesia was placed under the first United Nations Security Council authorised sanctions, beginning in 1965 and lasting until the restoration of British rule in December 1979.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhodesia (3543 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Rhodesia: Unilateral Declaration of Independence Documents, 1965
		The British Government wish to make it clear that it is the duty of all British subjects in Rhodesia, including all citizens of Rhodesia, to remain loyal to The Queen and to the law of the land, and to recognise the continuing authority and responsibility for Rhodesia of the Government of the United Kingdom.
		It is the duty of everyone owing allegiance to the Crown in Rhodesia or elsewhere to refrain from all acts which would assist the illegal régime to continue in their rebellion against the Crown.
		The creation of yet another centre of racialism-this time in Southern Rhodesia-is part of the overall plan of imperialist circles to erect an obstacle in the way, of the national liberation movement of the African peoples, the waves of which are drawing nearer and nearer to the last bulwarks of colonialism.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1965Rhodesia-UDI.html (2812 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 2 \| 1970s: Memories of Rhodesia
		Rhodesia's new status went largely unrecognised by the international community - as had Prime Minister Mr Smith's unilateral declaration of independence from the UK five years earlier.
		I was born and bred in Rhodesia, I served with commitment in the Rhodesian Army (RLI) and I have been proud to call myself a Zimbabwean ever since history corrected itself, in 1980.
		I was born in 1964 in the so-called North Eastern War Front of Rhodesia in Mazoe district, which witnessed the heaviest fighting in the war of liberation of Zimbabwe.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/witness/march/2/newsid_3497000/3497239.stm (6866 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Rhodesia - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rhodesia (after Cecil Rhodes) is the former name of the region of Africa corresponding to modern-day Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) and Zambia (Northern Rhodesia).
		In 1961, faced with the independence of African states, Great Britain attempted to create the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland[?], which consisted of the current nations of Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi which at the time were called Southern Rhodesia[?], Northern Rhodesia[?] and Nyasaland respectivelu.
		In 1965 Rhodesia unilaterally declared itself independent under a white-dominated government led by Ian Smith.
	www.kidsseek.com /encyclopedia-wiki/rh/Rhodesia (222 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 22 \| 1972: Rhodesia out of Olympics
		The African nations were demanding Rhodesia's expulsion on the grounds the country was an illegal regime and members of its team were not therefore British subjects.
		Rhodesia last took part in the Olympics at Tokyo in 1964, before its unilateral declaration of independence.
		Rhodesia was allowed back into the games in 1980 by which time it was known as Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe's rule.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/22/newsid_3549000/3549444.stm (611 words)

	Rhodesia
		Rhodesia was a sun-drenched country in southern Africa.
		Rhodesia had been a British Colony from 1923 and before that was ruled by a commercial company under a Royal Charter.
		Britain and the rest of the world imposed sanctions on Rhodesia which worsened the living conditions of the fls both in the rural and the urban areas.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~kmori/zimbabwe/Rhodesia.html (410 words)

	Operation AGILA, Rhodesia
		Rhodesia supplied more troops per head of population than any other country in the British Empire and understandably felt that they had paid for their own country (Rhodesia) in blood and sorrow, on behalf of the Mother Country.
		In April 1979 an election was held in Rhodesia in which 63 percent of the fl population voted, and on the 1 June 1979, Bishop Able Muzorewa was sworn in as the first fl Prime Minister of Rhodesia.
		This recce group travelled the length and breadth of Rhodesia and gathered much vital information on how the war was being conducted by all three sides and where the various bases and camps were located.
	riv.co.nz /rnza/tales/subritzky5.htm (3338 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rhodesia
		At one time Bulawayo had a population of some 7000 white inhabitants and seemed to be fulfilling the dreams of its founder when its progress and that of the whole country was cut short by the cattle pest, the native rebellion of 1896, and by years of stagnation and inactivity consequent upon the Boer War.
		North-western Rhodesia or Barotseland is ruled partly by an administrator residing at Livingstone, near the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi and partly by its native King Lewanika, the chief of the Barotse, who has been heavily subsidised by the company.
		The predominant people in North-eastern Rhodesia are the Awemba and the Angoni whose raiding propensities and coöperation with the Arab slave drivers caused much trouble and expense until their definitive annexation by the company in 1894.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13025a.htm (1320 words)

	Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The rising sun in gold came from the shield of Nyasaland, the red lion from that of Southern Rhodesia and the six vertical fl and white wavy 'pallets' representing the Victoria Falls came from that of Northern Rhodesia.
		Rhodesia reached an impasse between the governments of Southern Rhodesia and the United Kingdom, leading the white minority regime to declare its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) on 11 November 1965.
		The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland came into being on 3 September 1953 comprising the colony of Southern Rhodesia and the protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
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	Zimbabwe: Historical flags (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The issue of a flag for Southern Rhodesia was resolved once the territory became part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and a new flag adopted on 7 September 1953.
		In 1953 Southern Rhodesia became part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and the Federal blue ensign was flown in the Colony, alongside the Union Jack.
		Rhodesia (having dropped the "Southern") wanted independence on the same lines but the British Government refused on the basis that not enough was being done regarding the political advancement of the African population.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/zw-hist.html (4687 words)

	The Battle For Rhodesia
		Rhodesia's Sir Roy Welensky redeemed the name of England at that moment by refusing to allow "the transit of bombs which we know are destined to be used against almost defenceless people who are fighting for their homeland, but who have ranged against them at least one of the great powers of the world today".
		Rhodesia means you, from Whitehall to Washington, Wisconsin to Worcestershire, Wigan to Wilmington and Winnipeg, and you cannot escape it.
		On this basis the Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland was born in September 1953.
	www.douglasreed.co.uk /rhodesia.html (21816 words)

	Zimbabwe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.
		In 1953, Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia (later called Zambia) were combined with Nyasaland (now called Malawi) to form the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation.
		When negotiations in 1966 and 1968 proved fruitless, economic sanctions against Rhodesia were suggested, but were blocked by the UK in the Security Council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zimbabwe (2571 words)

	Fighting Vehicles and Weapons of Rhodesia Reviews
		Fighting Vehicles and Weapons of Rhodesia 1965-80, by Peter G Locke and Peter DF Cooke, is the best of its type to be published to date.
		Cooke has joined forces with Zimbabwe historian Peter Locke to produce the remarkably detailed and copiously illustrated Fighting Vehicles and Weapons of Rhodesia 1965-80, whose bizarre and sinister contents are signalled by the cover picture of an armour-plated car bristling with anti-ambush guns: underneath all that weaponry is the unmistakeable shape of an Austin Cambridge.
		Beginning with an overview, Fortress Rhodesia and the background, Bush War, they go on to the main section, Fighting Vehicles which describes the many and varied vehicles employed by the Rhodesian security forces, most of which, leaving aside the British-made armoured cars inherited, were indigenous designs built on available chassis.
	www.rhodesia.com /reviews.html (2015 words)

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		Rhodesia was always arguably the most progressive country on the African continent, and was certainly the most peaceful in terms of race relations and tribal conflict.
		It is noteworthy that despite the bush war, sanctions, and the on-going terrorist attacks against innocent civilians, Rhodesia was still able to progress to an elected fl majority rule government in 1979.
		This proved to be the beginning of the end for democracy in Rhodesia.
	rhodesian.server101.com /navigation_page.htm (1084 words)

	Remembering Rhodesia
		Under pressure from other African states (which by now had communist governments) it did not take the UN long to discover that Rhodesia was a “threat to world peace” – perhaps because she had upset the psychology of her neighbors.
		However, despite the sanctions and embargoes, Rhodesia has staged a spectacular economic advance, which surprised her friends and aggravated the envy of her foes.
		Rhodesia is the target of the biggest power grab since the communist swallowed up Angola and Mozambique.
	www.frontline.org.za /articles/remembering_rhodesia.htm (1676 words)

	Great North Road - Historical Notes on Northern Rhodesia
		That Northern Rhodesia is cut in two by Belgian territory is due to the fact that after two unsuccessful attempts by Alfred Sharpe and Joseph Thompson to secure a concession on behalf of the Chartered Company, the Katanga Company, internationally financed, was successful, in an expedition led by a British officer, Lieut.
		The settler community in Southern Rhodesia felt that to join their comparatively developed political system with that of Northern Rhodesia would mean an indefinite delay in gaining the responsible form of government for which they had so long been asking.
		The growth of Northern Rhodesia in these circumstances was phenomenal, and in a few years the mining centres which sprang up became modern towns, with well-built houses, good streets, electricity, schools, hospitals and model quarters for native employees.
	www.greatnorthroad.org /livingstone/history.shtml (1305 words)

	Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Federation of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		RHODESIA AND NYASALAND, FEDERATION OF [Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Federation of] SE Africa, 1953-63, composed of the self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia and the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
		The Africans, fearing continued domination by the whites, demonstrated (1960-61) against the federation, and in 1962 there was a strong movement for its dissolution, particularly from the new African-dominated regime of Northern Rhodesia.
		Southern Rhodesia refused to hand political control over to its African majority, and in 1965 the white government unilaterally proclaimed the colony's independence from Britain as Rhodesia.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/RhodN1yas.asp (339 words)

	Rhodesia Military Police
		The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a federated territory in central Africa, created in 1953, that belonged to the United Kingdom (UK).
		On 1st January 1964 the Southern Rhodesia Corps of Military Police was formed, and in 1967 was renamed the Rhodesian Corps of Military Police.
		The wearing of Staff Corps dress and embellishments was changed in November 1967 in favour of the distinctive red colours and badge for which the Military Police have become immediately recognisable.
	home.mweb.co.za /re/redcap/rhodesia.htm (651 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Rhodesia
		British government in Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia) was the same as in its other African territories, consisting of a small central...
		Although Rhodes held nominal authority over this ill-defined region, in 1890 very little of it was actually under British control, so Rhodes...
		former territories of Rhodesia, federation including Rhodesia, business and economy, government and politics, independence from colonial rule,...
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	Rhodesians Worldwide - contact site for folk from Rhodesia
		With the phenomenal growth of the Internet over recent years, coupled with the speed and low cost of electronic communications, RWWWW was created to facilitate communications between people who at some stage lived in Rhodesia, and is now known as Zimbabwe.
		To re-establish lost contacts, to make new contacts, to catch up on news of Rhodesians, to advertise items for sale, and to strengthen and maintain the bond that residents of Rhodesia formed during its turbulent years.
		Rhodesia - Rhodesia/Zimbabwe news & discussion (Yahoo Group)
	www.rhodesia.com (312 words)

	Exploring Africa -> Students-> African Economies-> Colonialism Case Study: Norther Rhodesia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) was colonized in the 1890s by the British South Africa Company (BSAC), a business group that received a royal charter from the government of Britain in 1888.
		Prior to 1920, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), the largest of the three colonies, was also the least integrated into the colonial and world economy.
		By 1950 Northern Rhodesia, which prior to 1920 was overwhelmingly rural, had the largest urban population in Africa.
	exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu /curriculum/lm9/stu_six.html (1429 words)

	Books of Rhodesia Zimbabwe - Rhodesiana Reprint Library - Gold Series
		Brown remained in Rhodesia because, as he says, "for the first time in my life I felt that I was helping to make history, that I had witnessed the laying of the cornerstone of what, by virtue of the natural resources and fertility of the country, would one day become a populous and valuable colony.
		It is a profile of the Rhodesia of the early Twenties, and covers an important transitional period in the political life of the young country.
		His scheme was considered impracticable for Rhodesia, but it took root in Australia, where he did impressive work in giving many hundreds of underprivileged children from the overcrowded cities of Britain new opportunities in life.
	www.booksofzimbabwe.com /goldseri.html (8299 words)

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