The Selous Scouts was a special forces regiment of the Rhodesian Army that operated from 1973 until 1980.
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Everyone's Child is an eloquent call for action on behalf of Africa's millions of parentless children.
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How to Africanise the war, yet keep the political situation stable and unchanged? The Rhodesians found an answer with Pfumo Re Vanhu.
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Cecil John Rhodes (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate, and politician in southern Africa. He was prime minister of Cape Colony (1890 – 1896) and organiser of the giant diamond-mining company De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd.
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Zeinab Badawi travels to South Africa and Zimbabwe to see how southern Africans gradually came to grasp the destruction and suffering that would be inflicted upon them by white settlers.
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Nyasha Matonhodze featured in "Movement and Shape” for Vogue Japan.
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Archaeological evidence is often made to fit people’s prejudiced opinions about other people and the world, or it legitimises particular political ideologies. Case in point: Great Zimbabwe.
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On July 12, 2020 Zimbabwean-born Stephanie Travers became 1st black woman to stand on the podium in 70 years of Formula 1 history after Lewis Hamilton's win at Austria:F1.
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Dereck Chisora revitalises his career with an emphatic knockout win over Carlos Takam. Skip straight to the eighth round - 36:06 for the knockout - because that’s the one that matters.
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One was an aging leader criticised for clinging onto power for too long, and the other was Robert Mugabe. Both had to go.
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Watch the infamous President Robert Mugabe speech at the 70th UN General Assembly in full.
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Imagine paying $417.00 per sheet of toilet paper. Sound crazy? It’s not as crazy as you may think...
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Today in history, Stephen Chidhumo, and three accomplices escape Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
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Didier Drogba, Yaya Toure and Samuel Eto’o, amongst others, have all played in the Premier League, but Ndlovu was unmistakably the first black player in the English Premier League.
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On September 16, 1994, children at Ariel school in Ruwa, Zimbabwe said they'd seen a 'UFO' and 'aliens with big eyes' in bush land near their school playground. The story was reported around the world.
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Neria,a Zimbabwean widow (Jesesi Mungoshi) falls prey to her greedy brother-in-law (Dominic Kanaventi) who takes her children and belongings.
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Watch The Bhundu Boys' live performance at the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden, London.
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Some TV ads are made to last. Some not. One that has stayed in our mind - and yours, we’re sure - is the Air Zimbabwe TV advert from the late 80s.
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The Front-Line States are those that border South Africa. They are Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Angola. They are so named because they are on the front lines of the battle against apartheid.
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In the Winter of 1984 Zimbabwe's top musicians visited London for the first time. Watch Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited perform.
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On the second anniversary of independence from Britain, Zimbabwe embarked on the process of renaming its cities, towns and streets, in an attempt to eradicate all symbols associated with the British colonialism and White minority rule.
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Julian Manyon and the team from Thames Television's 'TV Eye' travel to Zimbabwe to Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe,and some of his key revolutionary allies.
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Mr Tekere and seven of his bodyguards were accused of murdering an elderly White farmer, and so Zimbabwe's White minority wanted reassurance at the trial that their lives and property do have official protection.
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Watch Bob Marley and The Wailers perform at Rufaro Stadium on April 19, 1980.
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With elections looming in Southern Rhodesia, a small monitoring force work to ensure free and fair elections.
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Josiah Tongogara was killed by his own forces in Mozambique, according to outgoing UANC Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr David Mukome. His body was already in a mortuary before the terrorist commanders flew to Salisbury on December 21, 1979.
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Both guests want, "a democratic government which would not be racist in its composition and which would be achieved with the least bloodshed possible," but disagree on the best means to that end.
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Zimbabwe Rhodesia was an unrecognised state that existed from 1 June 1979 to 11 December 1979.
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Poster by David King entitlled 'Stop the Execution of the Katumba Brothers! Stop the Execution of All Zimbambwean Political Prisoners!'
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Goodbye Rhodesia is a Thames Television documentary that captures the dying days of the Republic of Rhodesia in Southern Africa.
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Today in history the garrison town of Umtali, in the east of Rhodesia near its border with Mozambique, is hit with mortar bombs fired from an unknown position.
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An episode of Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. featuring Rhodesian leader Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa (ca. 1978)
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An interim government comprised of Ian Smith and three moderate black leaders quite literally comes under fire from ZANU and ZAPU guerillas.
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The Internal settlement was signed on 3 March 1978 between Prime Minister of Rhodesia Ian Smith and moderate African nationalist leaders comprise Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and Senator Chief Jeremiah Chirau. After almost 15 years of the Rhodesian Bush
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Any struggle without the participation of women cannot be complete and effective.
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This is a digitised excerpt from ‘President Nkomo’s Message’ from The Zimbabwe Review Vol. 6 Quarterly No. 5-6/77. Dear Comrades and friends; I feel that at the inception of our newsletter, THE ZIMBABWE PEOPLE’S VOICE, I should give you a
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"But my dear Joan, the moment Kissinger had made his speech, the Foreign Office came out, with the full authority of the Foreign Secretary, with a very strong statement fully endorsing what had been ..."
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Storyline With the Geneva talks to thrash out a settlement for the Rhodesian issue of majority rule adjourned without any sign of progress, Britain’s chairman, Ivor Richard, has been shuttling around southern Africa to find common ground among the main
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With his neighbouring countries newly-independet black governments piling on the pressure by supporting the guerrilla movements, Ian Smith realises the time had come to settle the issue of black majority rule before time ran out for the Rhodesian whites.
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Synopsis The Rhodesian issue is now precariously balanced, with the Geneva Conference deadlocked and African guerrilla forces stepping up the war on Rhodesia’s borders. This report examines both aspects, describes the life and views of a white farmer on the
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In an exclusive interview with Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere on the explosive situation in neighbouring Rhodesia, diplomat Henry Kissinger told him while they were both recently in South Africa.
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ITN's Roving Report visits Rhodesia a decade after U.D.I. with Ian Smith still fighting for the preservation of white supremacy and the denial of African majority rule.
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A brief glance over the past twelve months will help us to draw up a balance of our set backs and achievements.
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During the war of national liberation in Zimbabwe, there was a battle not just of arms and wills but also of ideas. To make their voices heard, two organisations – Robert Mugabe’s ZANU and Joshua Nkomo’s ZAPU – published journals
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William F. Buckley, Jr. and Rhodesian Primer Minister Ian Smith discuss the history of colonialism in Africa, the current state of Rhodesia's economy, and the scene in nearby countries such as Mozambique and Zambia.
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During the Chimurenga War, informational and political warfare was mounted by all involved. Anatomy of Terror, published by the Rhodesian Ministry of Information and distributed in Washington D.C., is one such example.
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For the past six months guerrillas, operating from bases in Zambia and Mozambique have been carrying out raids on white farms in Rhodesia's border area. ITN's Roving Report captures the aftermath.
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Herbert Chitepo addresses the National Press Club of Australia on July 17, 1973.
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