Where was the Republic of Rhodesia located?

Rhodesia, commonly known from 1970 onwards as the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979. It comprised the region now known as Zimbabwe. The country, with its capital in Salisbury, was considered a de facto successor state to the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia (which had achieved responsible government in 1923)

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David Coe

Almost 6% thought it was in Europe? Must have been Americans...

sweetqb

And, the Rhodesian Ridgeback Dog, used for hunting Lions!

JRW

Nikki Proctor, that is not a problem that just applies to Africa!

kgb

Nikki Proctor, the continent has so much and the people have so little. Look at any country that has a lot of problems and you see a politician

Glynis Rix

Sandie not Cyril Rhodes. Cecil John Rhodes.

Noelito

James Webb, Ah....the language of the imperialist dinosaur! 😯

Nikki Proctor

So sad that African politician's think that the richness of their countries they rule belong to them personally.

Nikki Proctor

Carroll Price, South Africa still has more wealth in her land than most first world countries. Whether it be minerals or wild life. It is the politicians that think the wealth belongs to them personally that they think they don't have to answer to morality and their country.

Marlen Brown

James Webb, I guess so, since all european colonized countries are left devoid of their wealth and natural resources by the time the colonizers abandon them. Pretty much the same as american neighborhoods

Player

James Webb, the Africans were better off without any of the colonial powers

PeterR

Sandie de Rougemont, Cecil John Rhodes

Sandie de Rougemont

Named after Cyril Rhodes

Wayne Roberts

I was born in a small village in Nottinghamshire, England that is called Rhodesia. Can be checked on Google maps, located near where Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire meet.

Carroll Price

Following the end of white rule, Rhodesia swiftly deteriorated from being a major exporter of food, to the next poverty- striken shithole of Africa, joined twenty years later by the formally white-ruled, immensely wealthy Republic of South Africa.