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The reasons for Rhodesia’s collapse are relatively simple, and have much to teach us about how to tackle Robert Mugabe, Smith’s odious successor in Zimbabwe. First of all, the independence of Mozambique opened up a new military front and allowed rebels to launch attacks on targets in eastern Rhodesia.
But it is even more remarkable that the man who once ran an election campaign promising "a whiter, brighter Rhodesia" does not live as other well-to-do Zimbabweans do—behind a bolted gate manned...
According to all the old people I talked to, Rhodesia was far better than Zimbabwe ever was. Rhodesia had a growing economy, stable monetary system, government programs for education in the rural areas and basically giving houses away to black families incentivizing them to come to the metro areas and leave the rural life so that they could be ...
Rhodesia, region, south-central Africa, now divided into Zimbabwe in the south and Zambia in the north. Named after British colonial administrator Cecil Rhodes, it was administered by the British South Africa Company in the 19th century and exploited mostly for its gold, copper, and coal deposits.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Inside Zimbabwe-Rhodesia itself, it wasn’t much better. The country was basically an oligarchy ran entirely by the UANC, ZANU-PF and former members of the Rhodesian Front, and Muzorewa was viewed as an elitist who didn’t know what everybody people were going through.
Oct 30, 2023 · 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...
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Zimbabwe Rhodesia (⫽ z ɪ m ˈ b ɑː b w eɪ r oʊ ˈ d iː ʒ ə, z ɪ m ˈ b ɑː b w i r oʊ ˈ d iː ʒ ə ⫽), alternatively known as Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, also informally known as Zimbabwe or Rhodesia, was a short-lived sovereign state that existed from 1 June 1979 to 18 April 1980, though lacked international recognition.
