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    General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 5 June 1958 for the seats in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly. Although the Dominion Party...
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    General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia between 14 February and 4 March 1980 to elect the members of the House of Assembly of the first Parliament...
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    General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 14 December 1962. Voters elected 65 members of the Legislative Assembly. The election was notable...
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    General elections were held in Rhodesia, renamed the year before from Southern Rhodesia, on 7 May 1965. The results was a victory for the ruling Rhodesian...
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    Formed in March 1962 by white Rhodesians opposed to decolonisation and majority rule, it won that December's general election and subsequently spearheaded...
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    majority of seats in parliament. The elections were held following the Internal Settlement negotiated by the Rhodesian Front government of Ian Smith and...
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    African nationalists, was forced into an early election by the defection of twelve MPs from his Rhodesian Front party, which denied him the two-thirds majority...
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    itself independent in November 1965, shortly after the previous elections; the Rhodesian Front government had always disliked the 1961 constitution and...
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    Edgar Whitehead (category Southern Rhodesian military personnel of World War II)
    was Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1958 to 1962. His government was defeated in the 1962 general election by the Rhodesian Front. Whitehead was...
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    General elections were held in Rhodesia on 30 July 1974. They saw the Rhodesian Front of Ian Smith re-elected, once more winning every one of the 50 seats...
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    Rhodesia (redirect from Rhodesian)
    standards. For example, the franchise for the first Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election in 1899 contained the following requirement: voters...
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    The Southern Rhodesian Liberal Party was a political party in Southern Rhodesia, founded in 1943 by Jacob Smit (1881–1959), the former United Party (UP)...
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    some support (especially in Matabeleland) at the election. Representatives of the Southern Rhodesian administration visited Cape Town to confer with Jan...
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    The Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR) was a regiment of the Rhodesian Army. The ranks of the RAR were recruited from the black African population, although...
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    UFP's success. In the Northern Rhodesian general elections in September the UFP won the most seats, but the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress,...
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  • White Zimbabweans (redirect from Rhodesians)
    Archived 4 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine Rhodesians Worldwide BBC report on 1965 Rhodesian general election The Zimbabwean Land Issue Zimbabwean refugee...
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    General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 27 January 1954 for the seats in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly. The result was a victory...
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    otherwise altering the Southern Rhodesian constitution. Fearing what the Labour Party might do if it won the next British general election (which was projected...
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    Ian Smith (category Southern Rhodesian World War II pilots)
    November 2007) was a Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (known as Southern Rhodesia until October...
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    Rhodesia and Nyasaland was held in Southern Rhodesia on 9 April 1953. The proposal was approved by 63.45% of voters. Southern Rhodesia, 9 April 1953: Federation...
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  • Constituent Assembly election 1958 South African general election 1958 Southern Rhodesian general election 1958 Sudanese parliamentary election 1958–1959 Tanganyikan...
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  • Maureen Thelma Watson (category Rhodesian activists)
    Child Welfare Centre. In the 1958 election, Watson, the United Federal Party candidate, was elected to the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly, representing...
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    mostly be black. The 1962 general election was a watershed for the country, since it resulted in the election of a Rhodesian Front government led by Winston...
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    Winston Field (category Southern Rhodesian military personnel of World War II)
    a Rhodesian politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia. Field was a former Dominion Party MP who founded the Rhodesian Front...
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    John Wrathall (category Recipient of the Rhodesian Legion of Merit)
    chartered accountant in 1935, he emigrated to Southern Rhodesia the next year. He worked for the Southern Rhodesian Government in its income tax department...
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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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    ministers in the Southern Rhodesia-dominated CAF, while a decade earlier only 70 Africans qualified to vote in the Southern Rhodesian elections. The property...
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    16. "Parliament of Zimbabwe :: History". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011. 1970 Rhodesian general election...
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    the Lancaster House Agreement. The British Government did not accept Rhodesian independence as they did not view the referendum as representative of...
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    franchise as elections to the Legislative Assembly, which excluded most Africans. Following three years of negotiations with the Southern Rhodesian government...
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