In 1976, Bishop Abel Muzorewa returned to Rhodesia after two years in exile in Tanzania.
Grobbelaar made 33 international appearances for Rhodesia and Zimbabwe and more than 400 for Liverpool.
In 1979, the parliament of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia met for the last time to vote itself out of existence.
Zimbabwe and its predecessor, Rhodesia (correctly Southern Rhodesia until Mr Smith compressed the name), have produced a crop of fine writing.
In 1895, the territories owned by the British South Africa Company south of the Zambesi were given the name of Rhodesia.
But U.N. sanctions against Smith's Rhodesia went largely ignored, and the Africans turned to guerrilla warfare, known as the second Chimurenga.
CNN: Seeds of Zimbabwe's land conflict were planted more than a century ago
Bernard Braine backed the Suez operation, opposed sanctions against Rhodesia, and in 1965 supported Enoch Powell for the Conservative Party leadership.
The only money was in touring Africa, playing jazz clubs from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to the Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo).
In 1975, in Rhodesia, formerly Southern Rhodesia, talks between the white minority government and black leaders opened in railway carriages near Victoria Falls.
Mr Rowland seems to have been welcomed in what was Southern Rhodesia as a fellow white who spoke with a decent upper-class accent.
In 1964, Kenneth Kaunda became president-designate of Zambia, formerly Northern Rhodesia.
He was in the Belgian army and had been a mercenary for the army of Rhodesia, the white-ruled precursor to Zimbabwe, and fought Marxist guerrillas, the newspaper said.
He eagerly tells us that during the 1930s and 1940s European Jews fled persecution and found not only safe haven in Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia) but prosperity.
The governing United Rhodesia Party was happy to recruit him.
The future of Rhodesia was being discussed, again in London.
Before long, Reverend Banana became enthused with the ideals of liberation politics, and started to denounce the white racist regime of what was then called Southern Rhodesia from the pulpit.
When Victoria sanctioned the concept, Rhodes led thousands of white settlers into the areas now known as Zambia and Zimbabwe (Northern and Southern Rhodesia, respectively), eventually uniting them under his British South Africa Company.
CNN: Seeds of Zimbabwe's land conflict were planted more than a century ago
In 1952 Mr Nkomo came to London to discuss the formation of a Central African federation of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, all then tied to Britain, and now, respectively, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
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