- Ian Smith
Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID (born April 8, 1919) served as the Prime Minister of the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia from April 13, 1964 to November 11, 1965 and as the first Prime Minister of Rhodesia from November 11, 1965 to June 1, 1979 during white minority rule. Smith declared unilaterally declared independence (UDI) from the United Kingdom on November 11, 1965. - Cecil Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL, (July 5 1853 - March 26 1902) was a British-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today controls 60% of the world's diamonds and at one time controlled 90% of the world's diamonds. He was an ardent believer in colonialism and was the coloniser of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him. - Garfield Todd
Reverend Sir Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd (July 13, 1908 - October 13, 2002) was a reformist Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1953 to 1958 and later became an opponent of white minority rule in Rhodesia. - Roy Welensky
Sir Raphael (Roy) Welensky, KCMG, (January 20, 1907 – December 5, 1991) was a white African politician and the second and final prime minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to parents of Jewish and Afrikaner ancestry, he moved to Northern Rhodesia, became involved with the trade unions, and entered the colonial legislative council in 1938. - Winston Field
Winston Joseph Field MBE (1904 - 1969) was a Rhodesian politician. Field was a former Dominion Party MP who founded the Rhodesian Front political party with Ian Douglas Smith. Field was born and brought up in Bromsgrove in the United Kingdom, and moved to Southern Rhodesia in 1921. A tobacco farmer near Marandellas (now known as Marondera), in Mashonaland East, Field was President of the powerful Rhodesian Tobacco Association from 1938 to 1940, … - Peter Godwin
Peter Godwin is a writer born in 1957 in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), of English and Polish Jewish parents. He wrote "Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa", a memoir about growing up in Southern Rhodesia in the 1960s and 1970s, as the former British colony collapsed to become Zimbabwe. "Mukiwa" won the Apple/Esquire/Waterstones award, and the Orwell Prize. In 2006, he published a second memoir, "When A Crocodile Eats The Sun", … - Edgar Whitehead
Sir Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead, OBE, (February 8, 1905-September 23, 1971) was a Rhodesian politician. He was a longstanding member of the Southern Rhodesia Legislative Assembly, although his career was interrupted by other posts and by illness; as 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. - Humphrey Gibbs
Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs, GCVO, KCMG (22 November 1902 - 1990) was the penultimate Governor of the colony of Southern Rhodesia (1959-1970) who served through, and opposed, the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965. - Simon Muzenda
Simon Vengai Muzenda (October 28 1922 - September 20 2003) was a Shona from the Karanga group, a Zimbabwean politician who served as a Deputy Prime Minister and vice president under President Robert Mugabe, a Shona Zezeru. Muzenda was born in the Gutu district of what was then the Victoria province of Southern Rhodesia, firmly under British colonial rule, as a son of a peasant farmer, and brought up by his grandmother, … - John Robinson
John Robinson (born August 29, 1971) was a Welsh International footballer. He was born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia and raised in England from 1976, by his Glasgow-born father and Southern Rhodesian mother. As a tricky winger, he played professional football for Brighton & Hove Albion, Charlton Athletic, Cardiff City and Gillingham. He won Under-21 and full international caps for Wales. Winner of Welsh player of the year, he was committed and a fans favourite. - Guy Clutton-Brock
Guy Clutton-Brock (1906 - January 29, 1995) was a Zimbabwean nationalist and co-founder of Cold Comfort Farm. Graduating from Magdalene College, Cambridge, he had a career in the prison and probation services, youth and community work in the East End of London and in post-war Germany. He went out to Southern Rhodesia in 1949 as an agricultural demonstrator and missionary, turning St Faiths Mission into a famous pioneering non-racial community. - George Nyandoro
George Nyandoro (8 July 1926 - 24 June 1994) served as the General Secretary of Zimbabwe African People's Union. An ethnic Shona, Nyandoro was one of the founders of the Southern Rhodesia African National Congress. - Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
Simbarashe Simbaneduku Mumbengegwi (born 1945) is a Zimbabwean politician. Mumbengegwi was a student at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in the late 1960s. Invariably known as Simba, he was the popular and affable president of the African Students Association. On graduation, he returned to his country with the intention of joining Mugabe's ZANU in its war with the Smith regime. He has been the foreign minister of Zimbabwe since April 15 2005, … - Solomon Mutswairo
Solomon Mangwiro Mutswairo was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet. A member of the Zezuru people of central Zimbabwe, Mutswairo wrote the first novel in the Shona language, "Feso." "Feso," originally published in Zezuru in 1957 (when Zimbabwe was still a colonial territory called Southern Rhodesia), is a narrative with subtle political implications set several hundreds years ago, just before British colonization. Beyond the use of the Shona language itself, … - Edson Zvobgo
Edson Jonasi Zvobgo (October 2, 1935 - August 22, 2004) was a founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF, was the Patriotic Front's spokesman at the Lancaster House in late 1979, a Harvard-trained lawyer, and a poet. His name is often misspelled by the media, either as Ed"di"son instead of Edson or Zvo"gb"o instead of Zvo"bg"o. He was born in then Southern Rhodesia in 1935, near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo), … - Arthur Shearly Cripps
Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869-1952) was an English Anglican priest who spent most of his life in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), a short story writer, and a poet. He was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he read history. He then trained at Cuddeston Theological College, taking holy orders, and from 1894 had the parish Ford End in Essex. - Andrew Murray
Andrew James Marshall Murray (born 29 January 1947), Australian politician, has been an Australian Democrats member of the Australian Senate since July 1996, representing Western Australia. Murray was born in Hove, in the United Kingdom. In 1951 he was sent as a child migrant to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where was educated before going to University in South Africa. He continued his education at Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1971), … - George Mitchell
George Mitchell (1 April 1867 - 4 July 1937) served as Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from July to September 1933. Born in the United Kingdom, he emigrated to South Africa in 1889, and moved to Matabeleland six years later to work as the manager of the Bank of Africa branch in Bulawayo. In 1901 he left the bank to become General Manager of the Rhodesia Exploration and Development Company, which sought to build up property. - Josiah Tungamirai
Air Chief Marshal Josiah Tungamirai (8 October 1948, Gutu, Southern Rhodesia - 25 August 2005), born Thomas Mberikwazvo was Zimbabwean Minister for Black Empowerment and Indigenization in Robert Mugabe's government before his death in 2005. - Charles Patrick John Coghlan
Sir Charles Patrick John Coghlan (24 June 1863 - 28 August 1927) was the first Premier of Southern Rhodesia and held office from October 1,1923 until his death on August 28, 1927. Sir Charles was born in King William's Town in South Africa and came to Rhodesia in 1900 to practice in Bulawayo as a lawyer. He was elected to the Legislative Council in the 1908 election first for the Western Electoral District and sat as Member for Bulawayo for 19 years. - Howard Unwin Moffat
Howard Unwin Moffat (13 January, 1869 - 19 January, 1951) served as second premier of Southern Rhodesia, from 1927 to 1933. Born in the Kuruman mission station in Bechuanaland, Moffat was the son of the missionary John Smith Moffat and grandson of the missionary Robert Moffat, who was the friend of King Mzilikazi and the father-in-law of David Livingstone. - Ray Amm
William Raymond Amm (1928 - 11 April 1955) was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, was a famous post-war motorcycle racer famous for two motor-cycle Grand Prix wins and 3 wins at the Isle of Man TT Races in his career. After sigining for the 1955 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season to ride for MV Agusta, Ray Amm was killed in his first race for MV Agusta in Italy in 1955. - John Robert Chancellor
Sir John Robert Chancellor, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO (b. 1870- d. 1952) was a British soldier and colonial official. After a career in the British Army he became a colonial administrator serving as governor of Mauritius (1911-1916), Trinidad and Tobago (1916-1921) and Southern Rhodesia (1923-1928). He was knighted in 1913. In 1928, he became High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine where he was perceived as being cool to Zionism. - Albert Lutuli
Albert John Lutuli (also known by his Zulu name "Mvumbi"; his surname is sometimes and probably more phonetically spelt "Luthuli") (1898? - 21 July 1967) was a South African teacher and politician. He was president of the African National Congress, at the time an umbrella organisation that led opposition to the white minority government in South Africa through the 1950s until his house arrest in 1958 effectively ended his direct role as head of the ANC. - Jamal Al-Husayni
Jamal al-Husayni, (b. 1893-1982), was born in Jerusalem and was a member of the influential Husayni family. Husayni served as Secretary of the Palestinian Arab Action Committee (1921-1934) and the Muslim Supreme Council. He was founder and chairman of the Palestine Arab Party and its delegate to the Arab Higher Committee, led by Amin al-Husayni. During the Great Arab Revolt he escaped first to Syria (1937) and then to Baghdad, Iraq (1939). - Henry Everard
Henry Breedon Everard DSO (February 21, 1897 - August 7, 1980) was a railway engineer and executive who became for a brief time the Acting President of Rhodesia during the U.D.I. period. Everard was born in Barnet and educated at Marlborough College and Cambridge University. During the First World War he served in France, and was wounded in combat. He worked as a railway engineer from 1922, … - Strive Masiyiwa
Strive Masiyiwa (aka "Bill Gates of Africa") is a Zimbabwean businessman and cellphone pioneer, founding Econet Wireless. Strive Masiyiwa was born in what was Southern Rhodesia in 1961. He went to High school in Scotland; he gained a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Cum Laude) at the University of Wales, returning to newly independent Zimbabwe in 1984, where he took a job with the state-owned telephone company. - Raleigh Grey
Sir Raleigh Grey KBE CMG CVO (March 24, 1860 - January 10, 1936) was a pioneer British coloniser of Southern Rhodesia who played an important part in the early government of the colony. - Harvey Ward
Harvey Grenville Ward worked as a sports editor, a foreign correspondent, and a political columnist, gaining notoriety for his anti-communism and for his support for white minority rule in Rhodesia and South Africa. Ward was born in Southern Rhodesia to an English father and a German mother. His parents settled in Africa and were engaged in enterprises such as the financing of railroad construction and the building of numerous hotels. - John Robarts
John Aldham Robarts was a prominent Canadian Bahá'í. He was born on 2 November 1901 in Waterloo, Ontario, to Aldham Wilson Robarts and Rachel Mary Montgomery Campbell Robarts. In 1957, Shoghi Effendi appointed Robarts a Hand of the Cause of God, the highest office to which an individual could be appointed in the Bahá'í Faith. His travels as a Hand included Southern Rhodesia, Morocco, Liberia, Cameroon, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Hawaii, Jamaica, … - John Pestell
Sir John Pestell KCVO (1916 - 2005) was Private Secretary and Comptroller to the Governor of Rhodesia 1965-1969. He was born in 1916 and educated at Portsmouth Northern Secondary School. After a short time in a Civil Service office he joined the British South Africa Police (the police force in Southern Rhodesia) on 23 April 1939. From 1943 to 1946 he served with the British army in North Africa, including Cyrenaica, and reached the rank of Major. - Henry Hamilton Beamish
Henry Hamilton Beamish (June 2, 1873 - March 27, 1948) was a leading British antisemite and the founder of The Britons. The son of an admiral who had served as an A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, Beamish served in the Second Boer War and settled in South Africa afterwards. It was here, he claimed in a 1919 interview with "The Times", that he became convinced of antisemitism as he felt that all of the country's industries were Jewish-owned. - Willie Musarurwa
"Willie" Wirayi Dzawanda Musarurwa (born November 24, 1927 in ZvimbaZimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia at the time); died April 3, 1990 in Harare, Zimbabwe) was a Zimbabwean journalist. Musarurwa studied at Princeton University from 1961 to 1962. He opposed the policies of both the minority white government and later the majority black government. He was imprisoned for over 10 years without trial. - Godfrey Huggins 1st Viscount Malvern
Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, CH, KCMG, PC, (July 6 1883 - May 8 1971) was a Rhodesian politician and physician. He was educated at Malvern College and St. Thomas's Hospital, London. After practicing medicine in London, Huggins emigrated to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia in 1911. He entered politics in 1923 and was elected to the Legislative Council of the colony upon its creation. - Nigel Dennis
Nigel Dennis (January 16, 1912-July 19, 1989) was an English writer, critic, playwright and magazine editor. Born in Surrey, England, Dennis as a child moved with his family to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He would travel to Germany for his education before returning to the UK, where he stayed for four years before settling in the U.S. in 1934. He held jobs at the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, a censorship body; "The New Republic", … - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 5th Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG PC (August 27, 1893 - February 23, 1972) was a grandson of the great 3rd Marquess. Nicknamed "Bobbety", the 5th Marquess was elected to the House of Commons in 1929, and then called up to the House of Lords by a writ of acceleration in 1941, before he succeeded his father as Marquess of Salisbury in 1947. Lord Salisbury was a prominent Tory politician in the 1940s and 1950s, … - Antony Duff
Sir Arthur Antony Duff, GCMG, CVO, DSO, DSC, PC (25 February 1920-13 August 2000) was Director-General (DG) of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1985 to 1988. He previously served in the Cabinet Office and was Deputy Governor of Southern Rhodesia, to Lord Soames, 1979-80. - Peta Hall
Peta Hall is a well known Canadian potter. Born in Southern Rhodesia, she was influenced by Africa's art, culture, and sense of color. She has worked around the world, from the United States to Canada, Britain, and across Europe and Asia. Her studio is currently based in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, where she produces both artistic and functional pottery. Her recent exhibit "Celebrating Elders", or "The Torso Exhibit", … - Tinos Rusere
Tinos Rusere (May 10, 1945 - March 1, 2007) was a Zimbabwean miner and trade union activist. During the Second Chimurenga he recruited members of ZANLA and he was later elected as a Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front member to the Parliament of Zimbabwe. At the time of his death he was Deputy Minister for Mines and Environment. Rusere was born in Nechaziva Village in the Zaka district in what was then Victoria province of Southern Rhodesia. - David Checketts
Squadron Leader Sir David Checketts, KCVO (born 1930) was Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales 1970-1978. He was educated at a grammar school. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1948 and received flying training at RATG Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia in 1948-1950. Checketts served with 14 Squadron in Germany 1950-1954, and then was an instructor at the fighter weapons school 1954-1957. From 1958-1959 he was Aide-de-Camp to the Commander-in-Chief Malta.
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