NOUN
- a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980
How To Use Southern Rhodesia In A Sentence
- She got married when she was twenty and had two children but was increasingly unhappy about the political situation in Southern Rhodesia, particularly the racism of the white ruling class.
- After a few months in dreary England, Alfred Tayler went to the Empire Exhibition and was seduced by the thought of farming in Southern Rhodesia. On Doris Lessing « Tales from the Reading Room
- On 13 July 1889 he founded the British South Africa Company, which subsequently administered and colonized the territory named Southern Rhodesia in his honour in 1898.
- Rapid economic development followed, the country becoming the crown colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1911 and a self-governing colony in 1923.
- In 1956, in response to Lessing's courageous outspokenness, she was declared a prohibited alien in both Southern Rhodesia and South Africa.
- He and his deputy, Roger Zulu, had been the only teaching staff until I and another recruit, Alfred Zaranyika, a Southern Rhodesian, arrived.
- I grew up as a youngster in Shabani, near Fort Victoria in Southern Rhodesia.
- He also dealt with Southern Rhodesia, though it was still officially a self-governing colony.
