1976 in Rhodesia

The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Rhodesia.

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Decades:
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
See also:

Incumbents

Events

June

August
  • 8 August - Operation Eland, aka the Nyadzonya Raid, is launched into Mozambique by the Selous Scouts
  • 11 August - Umtali came under rocket attack and mortar attack from Mozambique in retaliation for Operation Eland. Houses were damaged in Greenside and Darlington.

September
  • 24 September - The Rhodesian Government accepted proposals put forward by U.S. Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger for majority rule in Rhodesia within two years.

November
  • 15 November - 31 guerillas killed by Rhodesian Security Forces in a battle in the Honde Valley

December
  • 6 December - A retired Catholic bishop, a Catholic priest and a Catholic nun were shot dead in a guerrilla ambush in Lupane. They were 71-year-old retired Bishop of Bulawayo, Rt. Rev. Adolph Schmitt, 65-year-old Fr Possenti Weggarten, principal of Regina Mundi Secondary School in Lupane, and Sr Maria Frances van den Berg.[2]
  • 19 December - 27 male workers killed by guerillas at a tea estate in the Honde Valley.

Unknown

Births
  • 6 July - Bobby Skinstad - former South Africa National Rugby Team captain

Deaths

Bibliography
  • (1978). "The Valiant Years." Galaxie Press, Salisbury, Rhodesia

References
  1. Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.
  2. "Survivor Tells of Rhodesia Ambush". The New York Times. 6 December 1976. Retrieved 5 September 2021.


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