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.

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 ...

All mutual trade has been cancelled by Britain, and Rhodesia will be crippled by the embargo on petroleum when her ten weeks' supply runs out. But the consensus of the white populace is not yet ...

When the British declared their array of embargoes against rebellious Rhodesia, the moment of truth that would bring down Ian Smith’s white regime was expected to arrive when the tobacco crop ...

"Rhodesia" was an unrecognized country in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 - eventually it gained independence and was renamed Zimbabwe in 1980. This story is based on Alexandra ...

Jean Mottram my neighbour writes: "I worked in the Secretariat (Government HQ) in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia from May 1956 to December 1965. In October 1964 Northern Rhodesia was granted ...