The dying days of the Republic of Rhodesia in Southern Africa. Filmed by Thames Televisions flagship factual programme 'This week' First transmitted on 11/01/1979
End of Empire chronicled the last days of British rule around the globe, through the remarkably candid reminiscences of both colonizers and the colonized.
The series, a Granada Television production, uses old newsreel film and interviews with former British and Rhodesian officials.
This chapter covers the Central African Federation of Nyasaland (today Malawi), Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia), and Southern Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe).
See how remaining Rhodies that had no support system outside of Zimbabwe ended up. It's truly sad. 40,000+ of them stuck there with little or no lifeline.
"Homes In Zimbabwe (http://www.hiz.org.uk/ ) registered as a UK charity in 2004. This year, 2011, HIZ aims to feed frail, elderly in Harare, Bulawayo and other towns around Zimbabwe. Without Homes In Zimbabwe's support many would starve. HIZ provides food to 28 residential homes, runs a soup kitchen and supports SOAP (Save Our Aged People); a network of volunteers who deliver food parcels to elderly people struggling to survive in their own homes. Registered UK Charity No: 1104512."
The charity does not exist anymore to my knowledge. They fed 1,600 of the 40,000.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160817022233/http://www.hiz.org.uk/
In 1976 Ian Smith met with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Pretoria. As a result of that meeting, the Rhodesian Government accepted a number of proposals by Kissinger in the hope of bringing about a political settlement.
This is a documentary of the Rhodesian public's reaction to the proposals.
This is a wonderful talk by a former American Green Beret who fought for Rhodesia. Captain Joseph C. Smith speaking on January 5th, 2013 at the Bomber Wings of Freedom Hall in Milwaukee Oregon. He was a Captain in the Rhodesian African Rifles.
He has a webpage here
https://www.josephcolumbussmith.com/category/rhodesia/
• Modern African Wars (1) - Rhodesia: 1965–80 (Men-At-Arms 183)
Osprey Publishing | 1986 | PDF
With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of secessionist Biafra faced off against the Nigerian Federal forces. It was an African war that captured the attention of the western media, with individual commanders such as Biafran leader Colonel Ojukwu and Federal Colonel Adekunle becoming familiar figures across the globe. The Nigerian forces easily outnumbered their opponents and benefitted from British and Soviet equipment, yet against all the odds the Biafrans held out for two and a half years, inflicting many setbacks on the Federal forces before their eventual surrender in 1970.
Today in History - Rhodesia Proclaims Independence (11 Nov 1965)
On November 11, 1965, Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain.
November 11th Rhodesia and the Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Ian Smith chose 11am on Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the 1918 armistice, for his radio broadcast in which he made the Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Ian Smith's government assumed wide powers, whilst in Britain Harold Wilson announced that all ties with the rebel regime were broken as a result of the declaration. The declaration provoke
"This is an interview I did with Ted of “A Stranger in my Own Land”. We discussed how Whites colonised Africa and what state Africa was in before whites came. Later we discussed in quite a lot of detail the many Liberation Wars in Africa and what really went on. Ted was quite astounded by the complexity of the many wars here against the whites and how the blacks were backed and funded. We discuss the many lies and misconceptions that the world’s Mass Media told about us whites in Africa."
--Jan Lamprecht
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