Although Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence marks a turning point in the history of southern Africa, it is too soon to tell which way southern Africa has turned. Did UDI consolidate ...

Economic boycotts are by now a familiar, if not quite believable, story to Rhodesia’s rebellious whites. The Brit ish declared one against them in 1965 without much noticeable effect, and the United ...

The failure of the independence negotiations between Britain and Rhodesia in London last week and reports coming out of that Central African country make it apparent that a unilateral declaration of ...

Britain’s Harold Wilson once called breakaway Rhodesia “my Viet Nam”—and with good reason. Since Rhodesia declared its independence in 1965, Wilson’s war of economic sanctions has cost Britain an ...

SALISBURY: Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, today [Nov 11] proclaimed the White-ruled British colony independent of Britain, sparking off one of the biggest crises in British history. In a ...

Jonathan Glass (Letters, April 10) contends that Brexit is comparable to Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. What nonsense. Mr Glass argues that the first similarity is that ...