Ian Smith

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Wikipedia: Ian Smith
Wikiquote: Ian Smith
Times Online: Ian Smith Obituary (November 21, 2007)
Time: "We Want Our Country" (1965)
Amazon.com: The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith
Audio: Ian Smith's radio address announcing UDI (Time 18:45)
Video: Ian Smith Interview (Time 09:46)

Ian Smith News and Articles

Google News: Ian Smith
CNN.com: Ian Smith, whose Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, dead at 88 (November 21, 2007)
News 24: Zimbabwe's ex-PM hospitalised (2005)
Guardian Unlimited: Zimbabwe farm militants try to evict Ian Smith (2001)
News24: Arrest me, Smith tells Mugabe (2000)
Time: "Ian Smith's Last Stand?" (1977)
Time: "The Man Who Cried Uncle" (1976)
BBC On this Day: White rule in Rhodesia to end (1976)
BBC On this Day: Ian Smith declares Rhodesia a republic (1970)

Ian Smith Blogs and Commentaries

Google Blog Search: Ian Smith
Club Afrika Forums: Remembering Ian Smith
New Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe and Ian Smith: two of a kind

Rhodesian Independence

When Smith became Prime Minister, the region was still under British control. In 1965, Smith declared unilateral independence and renamed the state from Southern Rhodesia to Rhodesia, but maintained entirely white rule.

Establishment of Biracial Rule

Black nationalists were upset by continued white-only rule of the newly-independent state. In 1971, the Rhodesian Bush War began. Fighting ceased in 1979 when the Lancaster House Agreement was signed. The agreement formally ended white-only rule.