Analysis - In southern Africa townships were built as segregated urban zones for black people. They were created under colonial and white minority rule policies that controlled movement, confined ...

There is something tragically ironic about the state Zimbabwe finds itself in today.A country that was once described by none ...

Muzorewa's party won and he became prime minister of the state of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, proclaimed in June 1979. White minority rule had ended. But the guerrillas did not halt their insurgency and the ...

The Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation played ... is by itself a fascinating tale contained in the booklet. Roots Rocking Zimbabwe: The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980 is released ...

This complex and brutal conflict pitted the white-minority Rhodesian government against ... and its conclusion with the birth of modern-day Zimbabwe in 1980. Republican wants FEMA help after ...

Zimbabwe, unfortunately, currently resembles Rhodesia, the colonial state that preceded its formation in 1980. A defining characteristic of Rhodesia was the state’s steadfast resistance to the ...

"Rhodesia" was an unrecognized country in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 - eventually it gained independence and was renamed Zimbabwe in 1980. This story is based on Alexandra ...

Zimbabwe and Zambia were both part of the British protectorate of Rhodesia, named after the brutal British coloniser Cecil Rhodes, at the time one of the richest men in the world. The countries now ...

Southern Rhodesia was known as Rhodesia until 1979, when it became Zimbabwe Rhodesia. In 1980, Zimbabwe gained independence from the British and dropped the Rhodesia part of its name, derived from ...

Rhodesia’s illegal independence and white minority rule, over territory that is now Zimbabwe, didn’t unfold in a vacuum. Even critics of the regime lent tacit support or failed to truly ...