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30 kwi 2021 · The Chinhoyi attack signalled the start of what’s known in Zimbabwe as the Second Chimurenga (1966-1979), the war on whites led by Ian Smith of the Rhodesia Front, whose Government declared an illegal declaration of independence (UDI) on November 11 1965.
The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the Rhodesian white minority-led government of Ian Smith (later the Zimbabwe-Rhodesian government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa); Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the military wing of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union; and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army of Joshua ...
The Battle of Sinoia, also known as the Battle of Chinhoyi was a small military engagement fought near Sinoia (modern-day Chinhoyi) between a small unit of Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) guerrillas and the Rhodesian police force on 28 April 1966.
24 lut 2022 · The Rhodesian Bush War, or the Zimbabwe War of Liberation, is a story of Rhodesian military successes followed by a crushing political defeat. The Rhodesian security apparatus never lost a single kinetic engagement with insurgent forces from 1965 until 1980 when Robert Mugabe was voted into office.
11 lis 2013 · ON This Day in photos: November 11 1965: The Rhodesian Government, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, cuts all links with the British Crown. Smith’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) came after talks with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
24 lut 2023 · On November 11th, 1965, the Colony of Rhodesia declared its independence from the British Commonwealth. Despite strong pushback against the measure, the Cabinet and Prime Minister declared a state of emergency, essentially shutting off the country and repressing any dissidence from the local population, with arrests of local lawyers and ...
Second Chimurenga. Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle. Zimbabwe had originally been part of the British colony Rhodesia. It had been a self-governing colony since 1923, but with a white minority...
