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The Right Honourable
Sir Roy Welensky
KCMG JP
2nd Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
In office 2 November 1956 – 31 December 1963
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Governors General
Lord Llewellin Sir Robert Tredgold Sir William Murphy The Earl of Dalhousie Sir Humphrey Gibbs
Preceded by
Godfrey Huggins
Succeeded by
Federation dissolved
Constituency
Broken Hill
Personal details
Born
Raphael Welensky
20 January 1907 Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe)
Died
5 December 1991 (aged 84) Blandford Forum, England
Nationality
Rhodesian
Political party
United Federal Party
Spouses
Elizabeth Henderson (deceased)
Valerie Scott
Occupation
locomotive enginedriver
Sir Roland "Roy" WelenskyKCMG PC JP (néRaphael Welensky; 20 January 1907 – 5 December 1991) was a Northern Rhodesian politician and the second and last Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
Born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to an Afrikaner mother and a Lithuanian Jewish father, he moved to Northern Rhodesia, became involved with the trade unions, and entered the colonial legislative council in 1938. There, he campaigned for the amalgamation of Northern and Southern Rhodesia (the latter under white self-government, the former under the colonial office). Although unsuccessful, he succeeded in the formation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a state within the British Empire that sought to retain predominant power for the white minority while moving in a progressive political direction, in contrast to South Africa under the apartheid system.
Becoming Prime Minister of the Federation in 1956, Welensky opposed British moves towards black majority rule, and he used force to suppress politically motivated violence in the territories. After the advent of black majority rule in two of the Federation's three territories (Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, now Zambia and Malawi, respectively), the Federation collapsed in 1963. Welensky retired to Salisbury, where he re-entered politics and attempted to stop Rhodesia (formerly Southern Rhodesia) from unilaterally declaring itself independent. With the end of white minority rule in 1979, and the recognised independence of Rhodesia as the Republic of Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe in 1980, Welensky emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he died in England in 1991. A fervent admirer of Britain and its Empire, Welensky described himself as "half Jewish, half Afrikaner [and] 100% British".[1]
^"The crown, empire loyalism and the assimilation of non-British white subjects in the British world: An argument against ethnic determinism", Donal Lowry, May 2003, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, pp. 31–32.
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