Prime Minister Ian Smith was surprised by Muzorewa's confrontational opening speech, but only antagonised the nationalists by saying so. The conference started on the morning of 26 August as planned. The six Rhodesian delegates took their places first, then around 40 nationalists entered and crowded around Muzorewa on the opposite side of the ...

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.

In 1969 the passenger service over the Bridge was indefinitely suspended, with Rhodesian trains terminating at the Falls. Two main exiled independence groups rose to prominence in the struggle against Ian Smith's government.

The participants in the conference were a delegation led by the Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith on behalf of his government, and a nationalist delegation attending under the banner of Abel Muzorewa’s African National Council (UANC), which for this conference also incorporated delegates from the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the ...

Negotiations to bring about a cease fire in the civil war broke up after Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith refused to grant immunity to African nationalist leaders attending the talks. "It...

His instincts were to prove correct when, at a conference at Victoria Falls, the British Minister for Central African Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, made a long speech praising (Southern) Rhodesia for its contribution to the war effort, its healthy economy and wonderful record of responsible government, but when asked point-blank by Smith if this ...

2003年12月1日 · Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the...

country's African nationalist leaders. Smith was obliged to reverse his policy of the previous ten years of treating the nationalist leaders as dangerous criminals, and to release them from detention. In August 1975 Smith met the African leaders at the Victoria Falls in a brief conference

On 11 November 1965, Southern Rhodesia’s prime minister, Ian Smith, unilaterally declared his territory’s independence from Britain. Not since the United States in 1776 had a British colony...

1997年11月1日 · Laurens van der Post recreated in entirety the lost world of the Kalahari Bushmen; Ian Smith was held in the lost world of Rhodesia, Kipling and faith. Still faintly shining after the war, that world was finally shattered by R.A.B. Butler's perfidy at Victoria Falls in 1963 and by the whole story of British deceit.