Lithuania, early 20th century. In the wake of deadly pogroms, a small group of Lithuanian Jews travels to Africa in search of business opportunities. They settle in the British colony of Rhodesia ...

World's Record One day last week—a fine midwinter's day in South Africa—one Authur Newton rose before dawn in Gwelo, Rhodesia, and ran till after dusk reaching Buluwayo, 100 miles ...

Black Rhodesian railroad workers strike for better pay, 1945 This is the list of demands submitted by strikers in Bulawayo to the General Manager of Rhodesia Railways: ... On Wednesday, the strike ...

Nr Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. 20.4.45 Fri Arrived at No 26 E.F.T.S Guinea Fowl today to start my Flying Training Course. On arrival there found Geordie and Larry already billeted.

Sister Janice McLaughlin, a Maryknoll Sisters nun who was jailed and later deported by white minority-ruled Rhodesia for exposing human rights abuses, has died at age 79. In a life dedicated to ...

Southern Rhodesia became a self-governing colony in 1911. In 1953 it was united with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland (now Malawi) in the Central African Federation, designed to defer black rule.

Donal Lamont, 92, a Roman Catholic bishop expelled from white-ruled Rhodesia in 1977 for opposing its racial policies, died Aug. 14 in Dublin, Ireland, of causes associated with aging.

Column - FORTY-EIGHT years ago from May 23 to 25 1964, Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu) members embarked on a journey into the future, a journey to the Midlands town of Gwelo to lay the ...

No 26 Elementary Flying Training School, Guinea Fowl, Nr Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia 20.4.45 Fri Arrived at No 26 E.F.T.S Guinea Fowl today to start my Flying Training Course. On arrival there found ...

PART 4 RAF PILOT TRAINING IN WW2. POSTED TO NO 22 Senior Flying Training School, Thornhill, Nr. Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. 29.6.45 Fri. Arrived at 10.30 am.