White Zimbabweans
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White Zimbabweans are an ethnocultural Southern African people of European descent. Most are English-speaking descendants of British settlers; a small minority are either Afrikaans-speaking descendant
A Rhodesian couple plays golf, attended by their native caddies. Taken from a 1970 Rhodesian government booklet promoting White immigration, titled "The Good Life".
The Rhodesian Women's Military Auxiliary Service on parade in Salisbury, December 1941
Author Doris Lessing in 1984
Writer Alexander McCall Smith
Rhodesia
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Rhodesia, officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970 onwards, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979. Rhodesia was the de facto successor to the self-governing
White Zimbabweans
…in the Rhodesian Bush War after the government of White Prime Minister Ian Smith implemented the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, establishing Rhodesia as a de facto independent state in 1965. Following the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980, the White population began to decline; many remained in the…
Rhodesian soldier interrogating villagers in late 1977 at gunpoint. This photograph would become one of the most enduring images of the Bush War.
Signing of the Rhodesian Internal Settlement (from left: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ian Smith, Jeremiah Chirau and Ndabaningi Sithole)
Troops of the Rhodesian Armoured Corps in 1979