HARARE (Sapa-DPA) - When Ian Smith, a lanky farmer from the small white minority-ruled British colony of Rhodesia in Central Africa, led an illegal and non-violent rebellion in the sixties against ...
Smith unilaterally declared independence from Britain on Nov. 11, 1965. He then served as the prime minister of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979 during white minority rule. The country failed to gain ...