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Southern Rhodesian

British  

adjective

  1. of or relating to the former Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) or its inhabitants

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noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Southern Rhodesia

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He managed to ram through a bill giving Southern Rhodesian blacks their first tiny voice in the territory's government�a separate ballot under which they could elect five of the 35 members of parliament.

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Only two generations removed from Zulu witchcraft, he grew up in a Southern Rhodesian mission, where his father served as an interpreter-evangelist.

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Dr. Hastings Banda, 55. who today sits, pajama-clad, writing his memoirs in a comfortable Southern Rhodesian prison, spent most of his adult life in Britain, where he was a prosperous London physician with a large white practice.

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The Southern Rhodesian government is as excited as the lucky prospectors.

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The prospectors and the Southern Rhodesian government are aware that the world emerald market is small and extremely sensitive, and therefore will dole out the gems slowly to keep prices high.

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