1965 Rhodesian general election information

General elections were held in Rhodesia, renamed the year before from Southern Rhodesia, on 7 May 1965. The results was a victory for the ruling Rhodesian...

Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front won all 20 of the white roll seats, with most of its candidates running unopposed. As a result of the election, Robert Mugabe...

Formed in March 1962 by white Rhodesians opposed to decolonisation and majority rule, it won that December's general election and subsequently spearheaded...

African nationalists, was forced into an early election by the defection of twelve MPs from his Rhodesian Front party, which denied him the two-thirds majority...

Archived 4 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine Rhodesians Worldwide BBC report on 1965 Rhodesian general election The Zimbabwean Land Issue Zimbabwean refugee...

General elections were held in Rhodesia on 30 July 1974. They saw the Rhodesian Front of Ian Smith re-elected, once more winning every one of the 50 seats...

country had declared itself independent in November 1965, shortly after the previous elections; the Rhodesian Front government had always disliked the 1961...

majority of seats in parliament. The elections were held following the Internal Settlement negotiated by the Rhodesian Front government of Ian Smith and...

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...

Legislative Assembly. The election was notable for bringing to power the Rhodesian Front, initially under Winston Field, which set the colony on the course...

incumbent Rhodesian government was limited. On 12 October 1965, the United Nations General Assembly had noted the repeated threats of the Rhodesian authorities...

The Rhodesian Security Forces were the military forces of the Rhodesian government. The Rhodesian Security Forces consisted of a ground force (the Rhodesian...

Lieutenant General George Peter Walls GLM DCD MBE (1927 – 20 July 2010) was a Rhodesian soldier. He served as the Head of the Armed Forces of Rhodesia...

mostly be black. The 1962 general election was a watershed for the country, since it resulted in the election of a Rhodesian Front government led by Winston...

The Rhodesian government actively recruited white personnel from other countries from the mid-1970s until 1980 to address manpower shortages in the Rhodesian...

The Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR) was a regiment of the Rhodesian Army. The ranks of the RAR were recruited from the black African population, although...

the Rhodesian Front. From the 1965 election up to the end of Rhodesia in 1979, all of the 'A' Roll seats and European seats were won by Rhodesian Front...

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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...

British-born Rhodesian politician who served in the internationally unrecognised positions of officer administrating the government (from 1965 until 1970)...

UFP's success. In the Northern Rhodesian general elections in September the UFP won the most seats, but the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress,...

The Rhodesian Armoured Corps, nicknamed the "Black Devils" — was the only standing armoured battalion of the Rhodesian Security Forces. During World War...

Elizabeth, Queen of Rhodesia, her heirs and successors". However, the Rhodesian Front government of Prime Minister Ian Smith ceased to recognise the authority...

won 10 of the 15 "B"-roll seats in the May 1965 general election. Since the governing, all-white Rhodesian Front had concurrently won all 50 "A"-roll...

Scouts /səˈluː/ was a special forces unit of the Rhodesian Army that operated during the Rhodesian Bush War from 1973 until the reconstitution of the...

almost entirely of specialists of the former Rhodesian Army, while unintegrated battalions of the Rhodesian African Rifles were assigned to the 1st, 3rd...