JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Ian Smith, the last white minority leader of Rhodesia, who vowed that blacks would not rule his country "in a thousand years," died Tuesday in a clinic outside Cape ...

Censors prevented the Rhodesia Herald, which opposed U.D.I., from putting out an independence extra; and when the paper finally appeared the next day, its pages were studded with gaping white ...

Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Britain's rebellious colony of Rhodesia, who once promised that white rule in Africa would endure for 1,000 years, died Tuesday in South Africa. He was 88 ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Ian Smith — Rhodesia’s last white prime minister, whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war — died Tuesday.

More recently, Rhodesia’s supporters have given it new life online. It’s now spoken of nostalgically on the white nationalist site Stormfront, and remembered sporadically on some of Reddit’s ...

Rhodesia was named after the British imperialist and racist Cecil Rhodes, who made one of the largest fortunes in the 19 th century world by tapping the mineral wealth of the region.

The reasons for Rhodesia’s collapse are relatively simple, and have much to teach us about how to tackle Robert Mugabe, Smith’s odious successor in Zimbabwe. First of all, the independence of ...

This was the mid-1970s. I was six or seven, picking up dropped pieces of conversation with the calibrated precision of a war child. Rhodesia was a small southern African country increasingly at ...

There once was a nation called Rhodesia. Located in southern Africa, Rhodesia was a nation with a European minority that ruled over black Africans. Rhodesian government and society were badly flawed a ...