“I have been hanging people for years, but I have never had all this fuss before.” Called to do the honors from the roadside restaurant he owns, Edward (“Lofty”) Milton, 54, Rhodesia’s part-time ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... HARARE, Zimbabwe — Ian Smith — Rhodesia’s last white prime minister, whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into ...

In the chamber of the U.N. Security Council last week, there was an unsettling sense of history repeated. The gallery was crowded, and delegates representing most of the world’s nations stood in knots ...

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When Britain imposed economic sanctions on the rebellious Southern Rhodesian government four months ago, it seemed unrealistic to argue over the terms of any future settlement. The Conservatives ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Ian Smith, the last white minority leader of Rhodesia, who vowed that blacks would not rule his country “in a thousand years,” died Tuesday in a clinic outside Cape Town, ...

Brian Oliver was born in London in 1924, but after his father was called to work in Malaya for the Post Office he spent much of his early life abroad. After schooling in Scotland and England, Brian ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Rhodesia – now Zimbabwe – has died at the age of 88, convinced that ...