Zimbabwe-Rhodesia

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The Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia consisted of 1 June 1979 to 12 December 1979. She was internationally well as its predecessor, the Republic of Rhodesia, not recognized. Officially, the British colony of Southern Rhodesia had never ceased to exist.

The presidential election of 28 May 1979 Josiah Zion Gumede won. When Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa was appointed. Together with the former Prime Minister Ian Smith, who now served as minister without portfolio, he formed a short-lived government, which included both white and black Africans. Even before 1960 thought black African nationalists on the name Zimbabwe formerly known as Southern Rhodesia for the area. Muzorewa was finally able to remove the name of Rhodesia from the country name. It was also assumed a new flag under his government.

Through the Lancaster House Agreement, the control of the country in preparation for the elections in the spring of 1980 was returned to the UK. Thus, the country's name was again Rhodesia. Southern Rhodesia was December 12, 1979 to April 17, 1980 a British colony and was released as the Republic of Zimbabwe on April 18, 1980 in Independence.