In 1962, Rhodesian John Love became the first non British racing driver to win the British Saloon Car Championship driving a Mini Cooper.

In addition, the British High Commissioner in Salisbury — John Baines Johnston — was withdrawn and the Rhodesian High Commissioner — Brigadier Andrew Skeen — was declared persona non grata and ordered to leave Britain.

The fact that the Council of Europe had adopted this tune as the " Anthem of Europe " in January 1972 apparently did not perturb the Rhodesian government ; John Sutherland and Stephen Fender comment that Rhodesia's choice proved deeply embarrassing for the British Labour administration, whose leaders now had to respect a melody associated with Rhodesia when attending official European functions.

* John Dering Nettleton, Rhodesian recipient of the Victoria Cross

In the 1981 movie The Grass is Singing ( based on the Doris Lessing novel of that name ) and starring Karen Black, John Thaw and John Kani, Livingstone was used as the location for a Southern Rhodesian town around 1950, for which year some of the streets in Livingstone could pass without modification.

Another popular folk singer was Northern Rhodesian-born John Edmond and former soldier of the ( Southern ) Rhodesian Army who also enjoyed considerable success during the Rhodesian Bush War.

As much as the Rhodesian security forces attacked and killed hundreds of ZAPU recruits across the borders in Zambia and Angola at Mkushi and Freedom Camps, ZANU also recorded many losses in Chimoio and Nyadzonia in Mozambique.

A " Ballad of the Red Beret " was sung by the Rhodesian Ministry of Internal Affairs at their battlecamp in Chikurubi.

The Rhodesian authorities resisted the temptation to nationalise major enterprises without paying proper compensation, consistently refused to radically alleviate unemployment, and shied from filling civil service posts with partisan appointees.

During the Apartheid era, the Rhodesian and South African governments supplied some citizens with modified submachine guns which were known as Land Defence Pistols ( LDP ) such as the Kommando LDP or Sanna 77, loosely based on the Czech CZ Model 25.

The Rhodesian Bush War of the 1960s and 1970s pitted the unrecognized, ardently anti-communist Rhodesian government, composed largely of the country's minority whites, against rival groups of black guerrillas, aligned respectively with Moscow and Beijing.

The existing Rhodesian Army was combined with the two guerilla armies ; the 20, 000-strong ZANLA forces of ZANU-PF and the 15, 000-strong ZIPRA forces of PF-ZAPU.

Rhodesian counterinsurgency operation extended into Zambia after ZIPRA rebels shot down two unarmed Vickers Viscount civilian airliners ( Air Rhodesia Flight 825 on 3 September 1978 and Air Rhodesia Flight 827 on 12 February 1979 ) with Soviet supplied SAM-7 heat-seeking missiles.

** Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith warns that Rhodesia will resist a trade embargo by neighboring countries with force.

The Rhodesian Security Force could react quickly to terrorist ambushes, farm attacks, Observation Post sightings, and could also be called in as reinforcements by trackers or patrols which made contact with the enemy.

By the end of Rhodesian operations with internal peace agreements, Fireforce was a well-developed counterinsurgency tactic.

The Rhodesian Light Infantry Regimental Association has placed its ' Troopie ' memorial statue on the grounds of Hatfield House, due to the long association of the Cecil family with Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ).

An enthusiastic shooter, walker, painter and homebrewer, Jecks will often be seen walking the moors with his Rhodesian Ridgeback and Bernese Mountain Dog, researching his novels in the landscape where they were originally conceived.

Some pre-war / regular RAAF and RCAF squadrons also served under RAF operational control, while New Zealand and Rhodesian personnel were frequently assigned to RAF squadrons with the honorifics of " and "" in their names.

These breeds were bred with the indigenous African dogs, including the dog of the Khoikhoi people, which resulted in the Boer hunting dogs, a forerunner to the modern Rhodesian Ridgeback.

The Thai Ridgeback is a crossbreed of the Phu Quoc ; historians have speculated the relationship between the Rhodesian Ridgeback and the Phu Quoc with suggestions that historically one breed may have been imported to the other's location.

This classification theory is consistent with old breed descriptions, which are somewhat contrary to the more classical sighthound / scenthound types, like the one offered in an advertisement run by the Rhodesian Parent Club in a show catalogue in 1926, "... Rhodesian Ridgeback ( Lion Dogs ) are unsurpassed for hunting and veld ( sic ) work.

In 1979, Young played a leading role in advancing a settlement in Rhodesia with Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, who had been two of the military leaders in the Rhodesian Bush War, which had ended in 1979.

He served as the UFP's Chief Whip in the Federal Assembly from 1958 to 1962 before resigning to help form the pro-independence Rhodesia Reform Party, which shortly merged with the Dominion Party to form the Rhodesian Front ( RF ).

Smith went against the party line on the basis that although the country's electoral system had never before explicitly discriminated by colour, the proposal to grant 15 out of the 65 parliamentary seats to Rhodesian blacks was in direct contrast with the principles of the UFP ; he said: " Our policy in the past has always been that we would have a government, in Rhodesia, based on merit and that people wouldn't worry whether you were black or whether you were white.

" In early 1962, he resigned as the UFP whip and formed a break-away party called the Rhodesia Reform Party, which merged with the Dominion Party after a few months to form the Rhodesian Front ( RF ).

Many of the people targeted were peaceful farmers with no interest in politics ; despite this, the boycotts were later cited by the British as evidence that the Rhodesian electoral system was biased towards the European minority.

After 1900, the Belgian Congo province of Katanga on the western shores of the lake developed faster than the Northern Rhodesian side, the Luapula Province and the town of Kasenga a few hours by boat up the Luapula River became the most developed in the Luapula-Mweru valley, and until the 1960s was the main commercial centre with better services and infrastructure than elsewhere.

It was such a successful tactic that some Rhodesian Light Infantry ( RLI ) soldiers reputedly made as many as three parachute combat jumps in one day.

The Selous Scouts differed from C Squadron 22 ( Rhodesian ) SAS, in that it was formed specifically to take part in tracking and infiltration operations, where soldiers would pretend to be guerrillas — or pseudo-operators.

In the Rhodesian Light Infantry a Commando was also the name given to its company sized units.

* Rhodesian Light Infantry

* Rhodesian Light Infantry, informally known as " Rhodesian Foreign Legion " ( 1961 – 1980 )

* Rhodesian Light Infantry July 25, 1975

Additionally, it began strengthening its paramilitary and counter-insurgency forces such as the British South Africa Police, the Rhodesian Light Infantry, the Rhodesian Special Air Service ( SAS ), and the Rhodesian African Rifles.

Eskimos — being the Rhodesian Light Infantry ’ s term for the Scouts, since they operated in ‘ Frozen ’ Areas where other units were told to avoid.

The Italians were opposed by a British contingent, commanded by Brigadier Arthur Reginald Chater, of about four-thousand men consisting of the lightly armed Somaliland Camel Corps, the 2nd ( Nyasaland ) Battalion King's African Rifles ( KAR ), the 1st Battalion Northern Rhodesian Regiment, the 3rd Battalion 15th Punjab Regiment and 1st East African Light Battery ( four 3. 7 inch howitzers ).

* " The Trooper ", the regimental statue of the Rhodesian Light Infantry

The Rhodesian Light Infantry, also known as " The Saints ", used it as their regimental march.

He was 26 years old, and a sergeant in the British South Africa Police attached to the Rhodesian Native Infantry during the First World War, when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

96 SAS and 48 RLI paratroopers and an additional 40 helicopter-borne RLI troops attacked the camps at 07h45 in the morning to exploit the concentration of forces on the parade ground for morning parade, directly after a strike by the Rhodesian Air Force's aging Canberra and Hunter strike aircraft.