• Thumbnail for Southern Rhodesian military involvement in the Malayan Emergency
    the Malayan Emergency of 1948–60, which pitted the Commonwealth against the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), the military arm of the Malayan Communist...
    24 KB (3,011 words) - 09:24, 7 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Malayan Emergency
    The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti-British National Liberation War (1948–1960), was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya between communist...
    96 KB (10,296 words) - 16:07, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhodesian Security Forces
    The Rhodesian Security Forces were the military forces of the Rhodesian government. The Rhodesian Security Forces consisted of a ground force (the Rhodesian...
    48 KB (3,507 words) - 07:54, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhodesian Bush War
    The Rhodesian Bush War, also called the Second Chimurenga as well as the Zimbabwean War of Liberation, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December...
    110 KB (12,885 words) - 11:19, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhodesian African Rifles
    against British colonial rule, in an event known as the Malayan Emergency. Rhodesian involvement in the Malayan Emergency began in 1951 with a two-year deployment...
    33 KB (4,393 words) - 11:23, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhodesia
    Rhodesia (redirect from Rhodesian)
    of Southern Rhodesia's white population. In an effort to delay the transition to black majority rule, the predominantly white Southern Rhodesian government...
    155 KB (16,508 words) - 23:41, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence
    since the United Kingdom had declared UDI illegal and outlawed the Rhodesian government with the Southern Rhodesia Act 1965, the state of emergency (and...
    132 KB (16,603 words) - 01:26, 16 May 2024
  • White Zimbabweans (redirect from Rhodesians)
    Bantu natives of Southern Rhodesia; and 100,529 Bantu aliens. The following year, Southern Rhodesians rejected, in a referendum, the option of becoming...
    121 KB (13,367 words) - 05:00, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Southern Rhodesia in World War II
    Britain shortly after the invasion of Poland in 1939. By the war's end, 26,121 Southern Rhodesians of all races had served in the armed forces, 8,390 of...
    106 KB (14,491 words) - 12:26, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Southern Rhodesia
    Cabinet of Southern Rhodesia and upon his death in 1927 he was succeeded by Howard Unwin Moffat. During World War II, Southern Rhodesian military units participated...
    35 KB (3,353 words) - 20:02, 26 May 2024
  • recognised majority rule in 1980. The United Kingdom, which had never recognised Rhodesian independence, briefly imposed direct rule in order to grant independence...
    90 KB (10,621 words) - 12:39, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Southern Rhodesia in World War I
    after the outbreak of war, parties of white Southern Rhodesians paid their own way to England to join the British Army. Most Southern Rhodesians who served...
    103 KB (13,737 words) - 16:17, 21 October 2023
  • for the government. The British authorities used pseudo tactics during the Malayan Emergency, with this coming to the attention of the Rhodesians who...
    45 KB (5,868 words) - 07:15, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zimbabwe Defence Forces
    be one of Zimbabwe's top priorities. The existing Rhodesian Army was combined with the two guerrilla armies; the 20,000-strong Zimbabwe African National...
    8 KB (591 words) - 01:22, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zimbabwe
    officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south...
    204 KB (19,829 words) - 08:45, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Company rule in Rhodesia
    alongside the British in the Second Boer War and the First World War; about 40% of Southern Rhodesian white men fought in the latter, mostly on the Western...
    68 KB (8,058 words) - 11:14, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zimbabwe Rhodesia
    Zimbabwe Rhodesia (category Rhodesian Bush War)
    2022). "The Rhodesian Bush War/Zimbabwe War of Liberation: A Political-Military Analysis". Small Wars Journal. Retrieved 4 August 2023. "Conflict in and around...
    35 KB (2,833 words) - 13:25, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of foreign volunteers
    List of foreign volunteers (category Lists of military personnel)
    volunteers and conscripts Rhodesian Light Infantry (initially all-Rhodesian, this unit became the "Foreign Legion" of the Rhodesian Army) Mahal – non-Israeli...
    32 KB (3,888 words) - 01:31, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zimbabwe Bird
    Zimbabwe Bird (category Birds in art)
    (first on the Rhodesian pound and then on the Rhodesian dollar). It probably represents the bateleur eagle (Terathopius ecaudatus) or the African fish...
    12 KB (1,435 words) - 17:29, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Rhodesia (1965–1979)
    1965. Headed by Prime Minister Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Front remained in government until 1 June 1979, when the country was reconstituted as Zimbabwe Rhodesia...
    25 KB (3,293 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Flag of Zimbabwe
    Flag of Zimbabwe (category All Wikipedia articles written in South African English)
    with the shield from the Southern Rhodesian coat of arms. This basic design was used until 1968, although a light blue ensign was introduced in April...
    18 KB (1,960 words) - 23:55, 27 March 2024
  • members undertaken shortly before the Nyasaland Emergency. The Southern Rhodesian government relied on the strength of the paramilitary British South Africa...
    73 KB (10,954 words) - 16:02, 9 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rhodesia and weapons of mass destruction
    Rhodesia and weapons of mass destruction (category Rhodesian Bush War)
    aware of the CBW program's existence, the full extent to which the Rhodesian political and military leadership was involved is unclear due to the lack of...
    10 KB (1,292 words) - 05:43, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northern Rhodesia
    from discriminatory Southern Rhodesian laws. The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland formed in 1953 was intensely unpopular among the vast African majority...
    81 KB (10,918 words) - 23:53, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zimbabwe National Army
    the Zimbabwean Joint Operations Command (JOC). The modern army has its roots in the Rhodesian Army, which was raised between 1963 and 1964 after the breakup...
    68 KB (6,581 words) - 12:27, 27 May 2024
  • The Rhodesian Intelligence Corps was a military intelligence regiment within the Rhodesian Army concerned with training personnel, units, and organizations...
    5 KB (211 words) - 22:38, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Special Air Service
    longer be required in Korea and so it instead volunteered to fight in the Malayan Emergency. Upon arrival in Malaya, it came under the command of "Mad Mike"...
    93 KB (8,703 words) - 09:53, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Police Support Unit
    Police Support Unit (category Rhodesian Bush War)
    counter-insurgency unit of the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia during the Rhodesian Bush War. The unit was the only paramilitary unit retained by the Zimbabwe Republic...
    14 KB (1,279 words) - 19:20, 20 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prime Minister of Rhodesia
    United Federal Party   Rhodesian Front The United Party, formed in 1934, renamed itself the United Rhodesia Party in 1953, when the Federation of Rhodesia...
    19 KB (506 words) - 21:17, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pioneer Column
    Pioneer Column (category 1890 establishments in Southern Rhodesia)
    a Rhodesian public holiday). The British union flag was hoisted on the following day, 13 September, in Fort Salisbury. Three towns were founded; the first...
    8 KB (826 words) - 08:13, 29 December 2023