The Prime Minister of Rhodesia , Ian Smith, at a conference in Geneva


Rhodesia's last white ruler dies aged 88

· Ian Douglas Smith, politician, born April 8 1919; died November 20 2007 · This article was amended on Monday December 3 2007. Southern Rhodesia became a self-governing British colony in 1923.


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Ian Smith (born April 8, 1919, Selukwe, Rhodesia [now Shurugwi, Zimbabwe]—died Nov. 20, 2007, Cape Town, S.Af.) first native-born prime minister of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and ardent advocate of white rule, who in 1965 declared Rhodesia 's independence and its subsequent withdrawal from the British Commonwealth.


Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia , giving a press conference at

By Alan Cowell. Nov. 20, 2007. Ian Douglas Smith, the former prime minister of Britain's rebellious colony of Rhodesia, who rose to power and slipped from it, committed to an unshakable belief.


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Ian Smith, a rebellious Rhodesian, died on November 20th, aged 88. Nov 22nd 2007 |. Share. AMONG the white tribes of Africa, it used to be said, the Rhodesians stood out for their ordinariness.


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The future Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War, interrupting his studies at Rhodes University in South Africa to join up in 1941.


The Prime Minister of Rhodesia , Ian Smith, at a conference in Geneva

The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the Rhodesian white minority-led government of Ian Smith (later the Zimbabwe-Rhodesian government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa ); Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the military wing of Robert Mugabe 's Zimbabwe African National Union; and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army of Joshua.


ExPrime Minister of Rhodesia Ian D. Smith at Conservative Alliance

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, has died at age 88. Smith, who recently.


Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, Ian Smith pictured sitting at a

ThamesTv 350K subscribers Subscribe 69K views 1 year ago A slightly shortened version of the original report. The Rhodesian leader Ian Smith,, having beaten off a right -wing challenges to.


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Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe - has died at the age of 88, convinced that history had vindicated his decision to break with Britain to preserve.


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Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Ian Smith . Ian Smith, (born April 8, 1919, Selukwe, Rhodesia—died Nov. 20, 2007, Cape Town, S.Af.), First native-born prime minister of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (1964-65). An ardent advocate of white rule, in 1965 he declared Rhodesia's independence and withdrew it.


Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia , Ian Smith at a Press Conference

Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID (8 April 1919 - 20 November 2007) was a Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (known as Southern Rhodesia until October 1964 and now known as Zimbabwe) from 1964 to 1979. [n 2] He was the country's first leader to be born and raised in Rhodesia, and led the predominantl.


Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia pictured standing beside Victoria

Nov. 21, 2007 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 yesterday in.


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Ian Smith, the former Rhodesian prime minister who unilaterally declared independence from British rule, has died aged 88. Smith ruled the country for 15 years from 1964 to 1979, in an.


Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, Ian Smith pictured delivering a

Publication date. June 1997 (hardback) Pages. 418. ISBN. 1-85782-176-9. The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith is a 1997 autobiographic apologia written by Ian Smith, focusing on his time as Prime Minister of the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, later Rhodesia (April 13, 1964 - June 1, 1979). [1]


Prime Minister Ian Smith said on NBC's Meet the Press, Rhodesia is

Nov. 21, 2007 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Ian Smith, the last white minority leader of Rhodesia, who vowed that blacks would not rule his country "in a thousand.


Ian Smith the Rhodesian Prime Minister during a press conference in

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