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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Ian Smith, Errol Harris, Wilbur Smith, Dion Forster, Alice Krige, Alec Smith, Chris Hani, Embeth Davidtz, Dana Wynter, Robert V. Taylor, James Martin, Nan Cross, Hermann Niebuhr, Kit Vaughan, Barry Streek, Heather Ford, Joan Hambidge, Max Theiler, Herbert Kretzmer, Barry Smith, Margaret Ballinger, Basil Schonland, Douglas Rogers, Cathy O'Dowd, David Webster, Edmund Morris, Patrick Mynhardt, Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Guy Butler, Michael Roberts, Ian Roberts, Humphry Knipe, Leo Theron, Vincent Maher, Mandla Mandela, Norman Bailey, K. Sello Duiker, Marguerite Poland, William Smith, Kathleen Satchwell, Antony Roy Clark, Michael Edwardes, Malcolm Kohll, Kyle Hannan, Michael Nuttall, Timothy Woods, Stephen Bowen, Gerald Pillay, Mbali Ntuli, Hans Joachim Berker, Denys Hobson, Nick Binedell, John Peter, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Ebenezer St Mark Ntlali, Hubert Best, Berry Bickle, Garth Erasmus, Anand Naidoo. Excerpt: Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID (8 April 1919 - 20 November 2007) was a politician active in the government of Southern Rhodesia, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe Rhodesia and Zimbabwe from 1948 to 1987, most notably serving as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 13 April 1964 to 1 June 1979. Born and raised in Selukwe (now Shurugwi), a small rural town in the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, Smith served in the Southern Rhodesian Air Force and British Royal Air Force during the Second World War and, after graduating from Rhodes University in South Africa, bought a farm in his home town in 1948. At the same time, he was elected as Selukwe's representative in the legislative assembly, running for the Southern Rhodesia Liberal Party; in doing so he became Southern Rhodesia's youngest ever member of parliament. Smith supported the creation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasalan...
