Rhodesian War
| Rhodesian Bush War Second Chimurenga Zimbabwe War of Liberation |
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| Part of the Decolonisation of Africa and the Cold War | |||||||
 The geopolitical situation after the independence of Angola and Mozambique in 1975. Rhodesia Rhodesian government's allies, apartheid-era South Africa and its dependency South-West Africa States giving governmental support to the nationalist guerrillas |
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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FROLIZI (1978–1979) |
FROLIZI (1971–1978) |
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Support for ZAPU:
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 Ndabaningi Sithole(from March 1978) James Chikerema(from March 1978)  Hendrik Verwoerd B.J. Vorster P.W. Botha
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 Joe Slovo
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1979: 10,800 regulars 15,000 reservists 8,000 police 19,000 police reservists 1973:2,000–5,000 troops |
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| 1,361 Rhodesian security forces members killed | 10,000+ guerrillas killed | ||||||
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Stalemate
Southern Rhodesia
(until 11 November 1965)
Rhodesia
(11 November 1965–1 June 1979)
Zimbabwe Rhodesia
(from 1 June 1979)
South Africa
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