Pre-1994 South Africa and Rhodesia both operated under horrific systems of racial oppression. South Africa was colonized in the 1600 s by the Dutch and, later, by the British.

The African nation of Zimbabwe was originally named South Rhodesia after the British colonizer Cecil Rhodes in the late 19th century. Rhodes assumed the country would forever bear his name, but he ...

Not since the Matabele and Mashona uprisings against Cecil Rhodes' white settlers in the 1890s had Rhodesian whites felt so threatened. For years, the very notion of black terrorism seemed ...

The New Yorker, February 19, 1966 P. 36. The writer comments on her memory of the racial situation in Rhodesia when she lived in Salisbury when her husband was a Cultural Affairs Officer for the U ...

Rhodesia was a colony ruled by a narrow minority of its population—white people comprised just 7% of the country. White business owners and elites benefited from this arrangement, drawing ...

It grew out of the former British colony of South Rhodesia, which had some degree of self-rule (under the British colonial umbrella) from 1923 until 1965, when the colony’s overwhelmingly white ...

The British colony of South Rhodesia – today Zimbabwe – was named for the 19th-century English politician and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes expected that it would always bear his name.

The story of apartheid South Africa is a bit more familiar. Twice colonized, first by Dutch settlers and then by the British Empire, post-independence South Africa was dominated by the white ...