1964 Summer Olympics Niger, Northern Rhodesia, Senegal, and Tanzania (as "Tanganyika"). Northern Rhodesia achieved full independence as Zambia on the same day as the closing ceremony. Athletes from Southern Rhodesia competed under the banner of Rhodesia; this was the last of three appearances at the Summer Olympics by a Rhodesian representation. Zimbabwe would later make its first appearance at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Athletes from East Germany and West Germany competed together as the United Team of Germany, as they had done previously in 1956 and 1960. Indonesia was banned from the 1964 Olympics, due to its refusal to allow Israeli and Taiwanese
Northern Rhodesia Mine Workers' Union 1940 NRWU launched a strike, which trigged a separate protest movement amongst African workers. In 1942 Maybank was deported from Rhodesia due to his activism. He was not allowed to return to the Copperbelt until the end of the Second World War. Northern Rhodesia Mine Workers' Union The Northern Rhodesia Mine Workers' Union (NRMU) was a trade union which existed in Northern Rhodesia between 1936 and 1964. It represented blue-collar, European workers in the copper mining industry. The NRMU was founded in 1936 by Charles Harris, the General Secretary of the South African Mine Workers' Union, as a local branch