The mid-1970s in Africa were a period of immense political tension and armed conflict, particularly in the small, landlocked nation of Rhodesia. Located northeast of South Africa, Rhodesia became the ...

To an outsider, the 250,000 whites of Rhodesia would seem to have little need to declare independence from Britain. They seem happy enough as they are. The climate is marvelous, the soil fertile, the ...

For the most part of the colonial period, the production of all tobacco in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) was a preserve of white settler farmers. The white settler government gave two excuses for ...

4 film reels : si., col. ; 16 mm. ; 1 hr., 8 min., 32 sec. M. Hildreth (Marie Hildreth) Meiere. Africa: South Africa, Rhodesia, Belgian Congo, 1953. Hildreth Meière ...

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of ...

Freedom riders came to Africa last week. Taking their tactics from the U.S. example, Southern Rhodesia’s African-led National Democratic Party launched a peaceful attack on the government’s ...

Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 49, No. 2 (APRIL 2014), pp. 366-389 (24 pages) PIDE/DGS, Portugal's secret police during the New State (1932-74), had an important role to play in the country's ...

Jewish Agency Treasurer Leon Dulzin, who returned this week from a visit to South Africa and Rhodesia, told JTA today he was “very encouraged” by the progress of the campaigns in those countries.