The `` Keep South Africa In '' group included Britain 's Harold Macmillan , Rhodesia and Nyasaland 's Roy Welensky , Australia 's Robert Menzies and Keith Holyoake of New Zealand .

RENAMO opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act FRELIMO 's attempts to establish a socialist one-party state , and was heavily backed by the anti-communist governments in Rhodesia and South Africa .

The Second Matabele War , also known as the Matabeleland Rebellion or part of what is now known in Zimbabwe as the First `` Chimurenga '' , was fought Hostile_encounter between 1896 and 1897 in the area then known as Rhodesia , now Zimbabwe .

It pitted Hostile_encounter the British South Africa Company against the Matabele people , which led to Causation conflict with the Shona people in the rest of Rhodesia .

Also attending Participation was Prime Minister Sir Godfrey Huggins of the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia , and representing India was The Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir .

During the Rhodesian Bush War two rival nationalist parties , Robert Mugabe 's Zimbabwe African National Union ( ZANU ) and Joshua Nkomo 's Zimbabwe African People 's Union ( ZAPU ) , had emerged Coming_to_be to challenge Rhodesia 's predominantly white government .

The Rhodesian Bush War—also called Name_conferral the Second Chimurenga and the Zimbabwe War of Liberation—was a civil conflict Hostile_encounter from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia ( later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia ) .

The war and its subsequent Internal Settlement , signed Sign_agreement in 1978 by Smith and Muzorewa , led to Causation the implementation Action of universal suffrage in June 1979 and the end Process_end of white minority rule in Rhodesia , which was renamed Name_conferral Zimbabwe Rhodesia under a black majority government .

The war and its subsequent Internal Settlement , signed Sign_agreement in 1978 by Smith and Muzorewa , led to Causation the implementation Action of universal suffrage in June 1979 and the end Process_end of white minority rule in Rhodesia , which was renamed Name_conferral Zimbabwe Rhodesia under a black majority government .

The Shangani Patrol ( or Wilson 's Patrol ) was a 34-soldier unit of the British South Africa Company that in 1893 was ambushed Attack and annihilated Killing by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors in Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) , during the First Matabele War .

Headed by Major Allan Wilson , the patrol was attacked Attack just north of the Shangani River in Matabeleland , Rhodesia .

The anniversary of the battle Hostile_encounter on 4 December 1893 became Becoming an annual public holiday in Rhodesia two years later , and was an official non-work day until 1920 .