Rhodesia Rhodesia Rhodesia (, ) was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the "de facto" successor state to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, which had been self-governing since achieving responsible government in 1923. A landlocked nation, Rhodesia was bordered by South Africa to the south, Bechuanaland (later Botswana) to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest, and Mozambique (a Portuguese province until 1975) to the east. In the late 19th century, the territory north of the Transvaal was chartered to the British South Africa Company, led by Cecil Rhodes.
Mark Dixon (businessman) Mark Dixon (businessman) Mark Leslie James Dixon (born November 1959) is an Essex-born English billionaire businessman, best known as the founder of serviced office business Regus. Mark Leslie James Dixon was born in November 1959, the son of a Ford car mechanic, Dixon was educated at Rainsford comprehensive school (which subsequently became St Peter's College, which has been abandoned and left derelict since 2011 ). On noticing that a new housing estate needed nourishment for its gardens, he sold peat distributed by wheelbarrow. After leaving school at 16, Dixon founded sandwich making business Dial-a-Snack, which delivered locally on a butcher's