General elections were held in Northern Rhodesia on 16 July 1932. Of the seven elected seats in the Legislative Council, four had only one candidate, who...
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possibly Nyasaland. The mineral wealth of Northern Rhodesia made full amalgamation attractive to Southern Rhodesian politicians, but the British Government...
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Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (redirect from Rhodesian declaration of independence)
altering the Southern Rhodesian constitution. Fearing what the Labour Party might do if it won the next British general election (which was projected for...
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elections saw eight members elected, with the new Northern Rhodesian Labour Party winning five seats. However, after its defeat in the 1944 elections...
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Ian Smith (category Rhodesian Air Force personnel)
Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was a Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia...
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the government, chairing meetings of the Rhodesian Cabinet, and deciding when to call a new general election for the House of Assembly. He retained this...
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James Callaghan (section 1979 general election)
control the unions, unable to solve the Irish problem, unable to solve the Rhodesian question, unable to secure its proposals for Welsh and Scottish devolution...
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The Rhodesian mission in Lisbon (Portuguese: Missão da Rodésia em Lisboa), the capital of Portugal, operated from September 1965 to May 1975. It was a...
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Walter Monckton (category Solicitors general for England and Wales)
It advocated a majority of African members in the Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesian legislatures and giving these territories the option to leave the...
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Godfrey Huggins (category Rhodesian military medical officers)
Viscount Malvern CH KCMG PC KStJ FRCS (6 July 1883 – 8 May 1971), was a Rhodesian politician and physician. He served as the fourth Prime Minister of Southern...
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Time magazine). Southern Rhodesian Premiers were routinely invited to Imperial Conferences of dominions' Prime Ministers from 1932 onwards; and, when the...
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Jeremy Thorpe (redirect from North Devon in the 1979 general election)
Liberals through a period of electoral success. This culminated in the general election of February 1974, when the party won 6 million votes out of some 31...
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cutting deep into assumed Northern Rhodesian territory. During the time of the Central African Federation, the Northern-Rhodesian Federal government’s Assistant...
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Nyasaland (redirect from Attorney General of Nyasaland)
000 adult males were working outside Nyasaland in 1935. The Southern Rhodesian census of 1931 alone recorded 54,000 male Nyasaland Africans there, so...
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traditionalist Afrikaner Nationalists in favor of Rhodesian Home Rule or "responsible government". Black Rhodesian males qualified for the vote in 1923 (based...
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Dominant-party system (category Elections)
All Progressives Congress (APC) won the presidential election in 2015. Rhodesia: The Rhodesian Front in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), under the leadership...
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Enos Nkala (category 1932 births)
Mzombi Nkala (23 August 1932 – 21 August 2013) was one of the founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union. During the Rhodesian Bush War, he served on...
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Jimmy Carter (category Candidates in the 1976 United States presidential election)
from the original on September 7, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2021. "Rhodesian Election Ends with Turnout Put at 65 Percent". The New York Times. April 25...
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118,900 feet (36,200 m). Elections were held in the white minority-ruled African nation of Rhodesia for the 66-member Rhodesian House of Assembly. White...
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Humberto Castelo Branco against president Joao Goulart. 1964–1979: The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second Chimurenga, was a guerrilla war which...
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dassie and bundu (Shona for bush). This dialect came to be known as Rhodesian English, typified by speakers such as Prime Minister Ian Smith and P.K...
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1974. In general, the birth rates of the southern republics in Transcaucasia and Central Asia were considerably higher than those in the northern parts of...
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internationally unrecognized sovereign state formed in the waning years of the Rhodesian Bush War, in contrast with the reestablished Southern Rhodesia. Ultimately...
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Thomas Spurgeon Page (category Members of the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia)
Thomas Spurgeon Page CBE (19 October 1879 – 10 February 1958) was a Northern Rhodesian politician who was a member of the Legislative Council and its first...
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of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland...
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Timeline of the 20th century (section 1932)
begins. July 2: Civil Rights Act abolishes segregation in the USA. July 4: Rhodesian Bush War begins. July 6: Independence of Malawi. August 2: The Gulf of...
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Presidency of Jimmy Carter (section 1976 election)
sanctions on the Rhodesian government of Ian Smith. He also pressured Smith to hold elections, leading to the 1979 Rhodesia elections and the eventual...
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supposedly lacking from America. According to Ken Flower, head of the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Operation, Eastland once complained about the fact...
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Irish National Liberation Army (category Proscribed paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland)
hundreds of Czechoslovak VZOR pistols as well as Chinese-made SKS rifles, Rhodesian submachine-guns and Browning pistols. The INLA also acquired Škorpion...
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after the end of the NHL season. A contingent of 500 Rhodesian Army troops under the command of General Peter Walls carried out Operation Aztec, an invasion...
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