I first met Robert Mugabe in 1979, during the Rhodesian war, at his headquarters in Maputo, Mozambique.

Shortly before his death, Khama would play a major role in negotiating the end of the Rhodesian civil war and the resulting creation and independence of Zimbabwe.

With this rifle he had killed leopards, lions, rhinos, buffalos, elephants by the hundred-and men, many men, in the days of the Rhodesian bush war.

It was the radio procedure they had used back in the days of the Rhodesian bush war.

This was the time of the Rhodesian bush war.

"We're not saying there are not negative things," said Mr. Makawa, whose family fled to the United States in 1977, during the Rhodesian war.

The Rhodesian Light Infantry, or RLI, was at the forefront of the Rhodesian war.

Of course, the habit had been reinforced during the years of that terrible Rhodesian bush war, when he had been called up to serve in the security forces.

The Rhodesian war and its legacy gnaw at her, but her father won't talk about it much: "Scared to death.

The Rhodesian bush war was becoming deadly earnest.