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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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    of Assembly in 1980. The Rhodesian Front won all 20 white seats in the 1980 election. Election Handbook: A Guide to the General Election of July 1985 (PDF)...
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    General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 14 December 1962 to elect 65 members of the Legislative Assembly. The election was notable for bringing...
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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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    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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    form they would keep until 1980. As the armed forces of Rhodesia (as Southern Rhodesia called itself from 1964), the Rhodesian Security Forces remained...
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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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  • The Rhodesian government actively recruited white personnel from other countries from the mid-1970s until 1980 to address manpower shortages in the Rhodesian...
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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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    Rhodesia (redirect from Rhodesian)
    1975–1980," Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2017 Ed Bird. Special Branch War: Slaughter in the Rhodesian Bush Southern Ndebele land, 1976–1980. Solihull...
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    roughly represented Southern Rhodesian commercial and major agricultural interests. The UFP contested the 1962 general election on a ticket of racial...
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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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  • unit of the Rhodesian Army that operated during the Rhodesian Bush War from 1973 until the reconstitution of the country as Zimbabwe in 1980. It was mainly...
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  • Zimbabweans. The Parliament's membership was set by the 1980 Southern Rhodesian general election, which gave ZANU–PF a nearly 57 percent majority of common...
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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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  • Peter Walls (category Southern Rhodesian military personnel of the Malayan Emergency)
    Lieutenant General George Peter Walls GLM DCD MBE (1927 – 20 July 2010) was a Rhodesian soldier. He served as the Head of the Armed Forces of Rhodesia...
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    The Rhodesian dollar (R$ or Rh$, RHD) was the currency of Rhodesia between 1970 and 1980. It was subdivided into 100 cents. The dollar was introduced on...
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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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    lasted until 1963. Southern Rhodesia was renamed Rhodesia and remained a de jure British colony until 1980. However, the Rhodesian government issued a...
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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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    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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  • The Rhodesian Defence Regiment (RDR) was a unit of the Rhodesian Army during the last years of the Rhodesian Bush War from 1978 to 1980. It was a guard...
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    White Zimbabweans (redirect from Rhodesians)
    White Zimbabweans, also known as White Rhodesians or simply Rhodesians, are a Southern African people of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and...
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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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    shortly after the invasion of Poland in 1939. By the war's end, 26,121 Southern Rhodesians of all races had served in the armed forces, 8,390 of them overseas...
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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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    Zimbabwe (category Southern African countries)
    as Zimbabwe in April 1980. Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in 1980, when his ZANU–PF party won the general election following the end of...
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  • Freedom House described the 1979 Rhodesian general election as "fair", but described the 1980 Southern Rhodesian general election as "dubious", and found the...
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    Operation Quartz (category Aftermath of the Rhodesian Bush War)
    by the Rhodesian Security Forces against Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF in the event that party lost the Southern Rhodesian general election, 1980. The operation...
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