Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in south central Africa,now the independent country of Zambia. It was formed in 1911 by amalgamating the two earlier protectorates of Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia. It was initially administered,as were the two earlier protectorates,by the British South Africa Company (BSAC),a chartered company,on behalf of the British Government. From 1924,it was administered by the British Government as a protectorate,under similar conditions to other British-administered protectorates,and the special provisions required when it was administered by BSAC were terminated.
Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa,established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company (BSAC) territories lying south of the Zambezi River. The region was informally known as south Zambesia until annexed by Britain at the behest of Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company,for whom the colony was named. The bounding territories were Bechuanaland (Botswana),Northern Rhodesia (Zambia),Moçambique (Mozambique),and the Transvaal Republic.
Sir Roland "Roy" Welensky was a Northern Rhodesian politician and the second and last Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
Clifford Walter Dupont was a British-born Rhodesian politician who served in the internationally unrecognised positions of officer administrating the government and president. Born in London and qualifying as a solicitor,Dupont served during the Second World War as an officer of the British Royal Artillery in North Africa before first visiting Southern Rhodesia in 1947. He returned a year later,started a ranch and emigrated full-time during the early 1950s,by which time the country had become a territory of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
Winston Joseph Field was a Rhodesian politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia. Field was a former Dominion Party MP who founded the Rhodesian Front political party with Ian Smith.
Sir Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead,was a Rhodesian politician. He was a longstanding member of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly,although his career was interrupted by other posts and by illness. In particular he had poor eyesight,and wore very thick glasses,and later experienced deafness whilst in office. An ally of Sir Roy Welensky,he was Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1958 to 1962. His government was defeated in the 1962 general election by the Rhodesian Front.
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 elected by white voters.
General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 15 September 1948. They saw Prime Minister Godfrey Huggins regain the overall majority he had lost in the previous elections in 1946. Huggins' United Party won a landslide,reducing the opposition Liberal Party to a small minority.
The Hon. Lionel Cripps,CMG,was the first Speaker of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly.
Jack William Pithey was a Rhodesian politician who served as the unrecognised state's Acting President between 1 November 1978 and 5 March 1979. He was also the President of the Senate of Rhodesia from 1970 to 1978 having previously been Member of Parliament for the Avondale constituency in north-west Salisbury between 1964 and 1970.
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland,also known as the Central African Federation (CAF),was a colonial federation that consisted of three southern African territories:the self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia and the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. It existed between 1953 and 1963.
The Speaker of the National Assembly of Zambia is a position established under Article 69(1) of the constitution. The Speaker is elected by members of the Assembly from anyone eligible to be elected to the National Assembly,but cannot be a sitting member.
The Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) is a Zambian television and radio station,formerly state owned,now technically a statutory body but still essentially under government control. It is the oldest,widest,and largest radio and television service provider in Zambia. It was established by an Act of Parliament in 1987,which was passed to transform the Zambia Broadcasting Services from being a Government Department under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services into a statutory body called the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation.
General elections were held in Northern Rhodesia on 31 August 1929. One issue in the elections was the proposed amalgamation of the colony with neighbouring Southern Rhodesia.
The modern political history of Zimbabwe starts with the arrival of white people to what was dubbed Southern Rhodesia in the 1890s. The country was initially run by an administrator appointed by the British South Africa Company. The prime ministerial role was first created in October 1923,when the country achieved responsible government,with Sir Charles Coghlan as its first Premier. The third Premier,George Mitchell,renamed the post Prime Minister in 1933.
The British South Africa Company's administration of what became Rhodesia was chartered in 1889 by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom,and began with the Pioneer Column's march north-east to Mashonaland in 1890. Empowered by its charter to acquire,govern and develop the area north of the Transvaal in southern Africa,the Company,headed by Cecil Rhodes,raised its own armed forces and carved out a huge bloc of territory through treaties,concessions and occasional military action,most prominently overcoming the Matabele army in the First and Second Matabele Wars of the 1890s. By the turn of the century,Rhodes's Company held a vast,land-locked country,bisected by the Zambezi river. It officially named this land Rhodesia in 1895,and ran it until the early 1920s.
Yotam Siachobe Muleya was a long-distance runner who represented Northern Rhodesia and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Muleya broke racial barriers and opened a new era in Rhodesian sport when he beat the famous British four minute miler,Gordon Pirie,by 100 yards in a three-mile race at Salisbury,Southern Rhodesia in December 1958.
Robinson Mwaakwe Nabulyato was a Zambian politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia between 1954 and 1958 and then Speaker of the National Assembly of Zambia from 1968 until 1988 and again from 1991 until 1998.
Albert Rubidge Washington Stumbles was a Southern Rhodesian lawyer and politician. After serving as a minister under Garfield Todd and Edgar Whitehead,Stumbles became the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Southern Rhodesia in 1964,a post he held until 1972. As Speaker,Stumbles is best remembered for his acceptance of Southern Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965.
Rhodesia,was a self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa. Until 1964,the territory was known as Southern Rhodesia,and less than a year before the name change the colony formed a part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and hosted its capital city,Salisbury. On 1 January 1964,the three parts of the Federation became separate colonies as they had been before the founding of the Federation on 1 August 1953. The demise of the short-lived union was seen as stemming overwhelmingly from black nationalist movements in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland,and both colonies were fast-tracked towards independence - Nyasaland first,as Malawi,on 6 July 1964 and Northern Rhodesia second,as Zambia,on 24 October. Southern Rhodesia,by contrast,stood firmly under white government,and its white population,which was far larger than the white populations elsewhere in the erstwhile Federation,was,in general,strongly opposed to the introduction of black majority rule. The Southern Rhodesian prime minister,Winston Field,whose government had won most of the federation's military and other assets for Southern Rhodesia,began to seek independence from the United Kingdom without introducing majority rule. However,he was unsuccessful and his own party,the Rhodesian Front,forced him to resign. Days prior to his resignation,on Field's request,Southern Rhodesia had changed its flag to a sky blue ensign defaced with the Rhodesian coat of arms,becoming the first British colony to use a sky blue ensign instead of a dark blue one.
