• General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 15 September 1948. They saw Prime Minister Godfrey Huggins regain the overall majority he had lost...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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 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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    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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    General elections were held in Northern Rhodesia on 14 August 1948. The ten elected members of the Legislative Council (an increase from eight in the 1944...
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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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    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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    self-government of the Rhodesian people which saw BSAC rule as an impediment to further expansion. The Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election of 1920 returned...
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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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  • international recognition and faced sustained internal opposition in the Rhodesian Bush War. After fifteen years of war, following the Lancaster House Agreement...
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  • Jacob Smit (category White Rhodesian people)
    Southern Rhodesian general election, in which his party won 12 seats. He lost his seat in the 1948 Southern Rhodesian general election, in which the Liberal...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Herrington armoured cars. It was renamed the Southern Rhodesian Armoured Car Regiment (SRACR) in December 1948. The regiment was led by Lieutenant Colonel...
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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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  • Dendy Young (category Southern Rhodesian military personnel of World War II)
    Reform Party. In the 1948 general election, he was elected for Avondale for the United Rhodesia Party. Young sat in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly...
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    with Southern Rhodesia and possibly Nyasaland. The mineral wealth of Northern Rhodesia made full amalgamation attractive to Southern Rhodesian politicians...
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