By the end of the decade, these events had contributed to the end of Rhodesia and ushered in an era of majority rule, despite Smith’s assertion that it would not happen “in a thousand years”. The ...

Symbols matter. If they didn’t, we wouldn’t be in the midst of such acrimonious debate about the Confederate flag, 150 years after the end of the Civil War. Most of its defenders assert ...

At week’s end, Rhodesia’s Ian Smith announced that he no longer even wanted the Ioanna V’s oil, since it would only aggravate the already messy diplomatic problems.

Called to do the honors from the roadside restaurant he owns, Edward (“Lofty”) Milton, 54, Rhodesia’s part-time public executioner, was professionally incapable of understanding the commotion.

In the end, Mr Smith maintained, it was not his enemies who beat him, but apartheid South Africa's threat to cut Rhodesia's lifeline. Margaret Thatcher's UK government brokered a peace deal in the ...

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight captures the childhood of 8-year-old Bobo living on her family farm in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) at the end of the Zimbabwean War for independence in 1980.