What is Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence?
[[File:Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Rhodesia).jpg|thumb]] '''[[Rhodesia]]'s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI)''' was a statement adopted by the Cabinet of Rhodesia on 11 November 1965, announcing that [[Southern Rhodesia]], a British territory in southern Africa that had governed itself since 1923, now regarded itself as an independent sovereign state. Despite the UDI, Rhodesia remained a British colony until it became [[Zimbabwe]] in 1980. [[Category:1965 establishments]] [[Category:1979 disestablishments]] [[Category:History of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Rhodesia]] [[Category:Declarations of independence]] {{history-stub}}