Prime Minister of Rhodesia held the post until the end of Federation on 31 December 1963. When Northern Rhodesia gained independence as Zambia on 24 October 1964, Southern Rhodesia began to refer to itself simply as "Rhodesia". Prime Minister Ian Smith's government issued a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1965, and he remained Prime Minister when the country was declared a republic in 1970. Under the Internal Settlement in 1979, after a long period of conflict, the country became known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, with Abel Muzorewa as its first black Prime Minister. None of these acts were recognised internationally, and under the Lancaster
Northern Rhodesia Mine Workers' Union 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 of the South African union. Frank Maybank was the general secretary of NRMU. It was soon discovered that the constitution of the South African union did not allow branches to be formed outside of the country, and the branch separated to form