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1897 |
Mbuya Nehanda, a spirit medium of the Zezuru Shona people, was executed for the killing of administrator Henry Pollard, known for his brutality toward blacks. She provided inspiration to the Hwata Dynasty for their revolt against the British South Africa Company colonization of Mashonaland and Matabeleland (later Zimbabwe). She is believed to have had immense powers was later remembered as the ancestral grandmother of the Zimbabwe nation. Links: Rhodesia, Zimbabwe 
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1904 |
The Rhodesian Broken Hill Development Company, a British colonial firm, founded a mine around which the Zambian town of Kabwe sprung up. Miners crushed ore to extract lead making the area extremely toxic. Links: Rhodesia, Zambia
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1905 |
Cecil Rhodes brought about the construction of a 650 foot iron bridge to connect Zambia and Zimbabwe near victoria Falls. Links: Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Zambia
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1950 |
Doris Lessing (1919-2013), British writer, authored her first novel “The Grass Is Singing.” a look at race in Rhodesia and the effect that harsh colonial experience had on both oppressor and oppressed. Links: Britain, Rhodesia, Writer
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1963 |
Roland Rowland (d.1998) became chief executive of the London and Rhodesia Mining and Land Co. (Lonrho). Over the next 30 years "Tiny" turned it into a conglomerate with more than 1000 subsidiaries in over 60 countries. Links: Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
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1963 |
Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia) ended a federation with Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Links: Rhodesia, Zambia
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1964 Oct 24 |
Zambia (N. Rhodesia) gained independence from Britain (National Day). Pres. Kenneth Kaunda and his National Independence Party ran the country until 1991. The country had fewer than 100 university graduates. Links: Rhodesia, Zambia
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1968 May 29 |
UN Resolution 253 resolved sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia. Links: Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
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1968 Jun 17 |
The UK enacted sanctions against Rhodesia. Links: Britain, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
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1968 Jul 18 |
The UK enacted sanctions against Rhodesia for a 2nd time. The first time was on June 17. Links: Britain, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
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1968 |
Abel Muzorewa was consecrated bishop of Rhodesia for the United Methodist. Links: Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
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1970 Mar 1 |
The white government of Rhodesia declared independence from Britain. Links: Britain, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
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1970 |
Black guerrillas fighting white rule attempted unsuccessfully to blast the body of Cecil Rhodes from his granite tomb in the Matopos Hills, Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe). Links: Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
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1971 |
Rhodesia’s Bishop Abel Muzorewa formed the African National Council (ANC) opening negotiations with the regime of Ian Smith. Links: Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
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1978 Mar 3 |
In Rhodesia Ian Smith signed an agreement with moderate black leaders, who had pledged to eschew war and to bring black majority rule into effect by Dec 31. Bishop Abel Muzorewa signed the agreement with Smith, founding nationalist Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau to form a transitional government which tinkered with the constitution and paved the way for elections. Smith agreed to step down following elections in 1979. Links: Rhodesia, Black History, Zimbabwe
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2007 Nov 20 |
Ian Smith (88), Rhodesia's last white prime minister, died in South Africa . His attempts to resist black rule dragged the country, later renamed as Zimbabwe, into isolation and civil war. Links: South Africa, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
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2010 Apr 8 |
In Zimbabwe retired bishop Abel Muzorewa (85) died. He was the first black leader of the former Rhodesia and later became an opponent of Zimbabwe's Pres. Mugabe. Links: Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
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