1978 in Rhodesia

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See also: 1977 in Zimbabwe, other events of 1978, 1979 in Zimbabwe and Years in Zimbabwe.

Incumbents

President:

until 31 August: John Wrathall

31 August-1 November: Henry Everard

starting 1 November: Jack William Pithey

Prime Minister: Ian Smith

January

3 January - Leopard Rock Hotel in the Vumba Mountains is damaged after a guerilla rocket attack.

March

3 March - The Salisbury Agreement what later became known as the Internal Settlement, aimed at leading to black majority rule signed by Prime Minister Ian Smith, UANC president Bishop Abel Muzorewa, ZUPO president Senator Chief Jeremiah Chirau, and ANC (Sithole) president the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole.

14 March - United Nations Security Council Resolution 423 condemned the Rhodesian Internal Settlement

21 March - Transitional Government aimed at leading to black majority rule formally established as part of the Salisbury Agreement, Internal Settlement.

April

14 April - Nine black ministers sworn into serve on the Ministerial Council of the Transitional Government.

May

19 May - Two Swiss Red Cross workers and their African assistant are killed by fighters near the Mozambique border.

June

23 June - 12 whites murdered in Vumba. 8 British missionaries (3 men and 5 women) and 4 of their children were bayonetted to death at Emmanuel Mission School at Vumba by guerillas. The dead belonged to the Elim Pentecostal Church.

24 June - Rhodesia beat Western Transvaal 41-9 in a Currie Cup match played at Hartsfield Rugby Ground, Bulawayo.

28 June - Three Zimbabwe African People's Union fighters kill two German missionaries.

August

15 August - The Rhodesia Herald was renamed The Herald.

Deaths

17 June - Archie Dunaway, an American Baptist evangelist, is stabbed to death by fighters at the Sanyati Mission Hospital, 1,120 km west of Salisbury

28 June - Clifford Dupont, 1st President of Rhodesia dies aged 72.

References

1978 in Rhodesia Wikipedia

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