Never was aeronautical engineering more significant than in the six years of the second world war. A deadly technological ...

The former RAF base just over the Cambridgeshire border hosted an American musician's final concert, before being returned to ...

A breed of African lion hound originating from South Africa and Zimbabwe in the 1600s, the Rhodesian Ridgeback is a cross between the European breeds of Dutch colonizers and the ridge-backed native ...

(CNN) — Here’s a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism. June 14, 1940 – Soviet bombers shoot down the Kaleva, a Finnish commercial plane traveling from ...

If drama were all that counted, the meeting that began last week between Harold Wilson of Britain and Ian Smith of rebellious Rhodesia would have been assured of success. The two men had not spoken to ...

This once-proud national airline, which began its journey in 1980 with a modern fleet inherited from Air Rhodesia, is now a global laughingstock, a shadow of its former self. At independence, Air ...

Fast forward to today, Air Zimbabwe, the successor to Air Rhodesia, stands as a reflection of the changes and challenges the airline industry has faced in the country. The modern photograph shows an ...

The night of 17-18 September 2024 will mark the 63 rd anniversary of the death in a plane crash near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) of the second United Nations Secretary-General, Dag ...

Not since the Matabele and Mashona uprisings against Cecil Rhodes’ white settlers in the 1890s had Rhodesian whites felt so threatened. For years, the very notion of black terrorism seemed ...

Nqobile Tshili — It was in 1977 when Cde Rejoice Sibanda, then aged 15, joined the liberation struggle with fellow teenagers, and a year later, she would survive the Mkushi Camp bombing in Zambia by ...