Editing Rhodesian Front (section)

{{Short description|Ruling party of Rhodesia (1965–1979)}}
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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Rhodesian Front
| abbreviation     = RF
| logo             = [[File:Logo of the Rhodesian Front.svg|120px]]
| colorcode        = {{party color|Rhodesian Front}}
| leader1_title    = Leader
| leader1_name     = [[Ian Smith]]
| founded          = {{Start date|df=y|1962|3|1}}
| dissolved        = {{End date|df=y|1981|06|06}}
| successor        = [[Republican Front (Zimbabwe)|Republican Front]]
| predecessor      = {{nowrap|[[Dominion Party]]<ref>{{cite book|last1= Lipschutz|first1=Mark R.|last2=Rasmussen|first2=R. Kent|title=Dictionary of African Historical Biography|editor=University of California Press|date=1989|page=265}}</ref><br />[[Southern Rhodesia Liberal Party]]}}
| headquarters     = [[Harare|Salisbury]], [[Rhodesia]]
| ideology         = [[White Zimbabweans|White]] [[minority politics|minority interests]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Leaver |first1=John David |title=Multiracialism and nationalisms: A political retrospective on 1950s Southern Rhodesia ('Colonial Zimbabwe') |journal=Journal of Third World Studies |date=2006 |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=167–188 |jstor=45194313 }}</ref><br />[[White nationalism]]<ref name=Lowry>{{cite book |author1=Donal Lowry |editor1-last=Onslow |editor1-first=Sue |title=Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation |date=2009 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=978-0-415-47420-7 |page=84 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xj-MAgAAQBAJ |access-date=7 April 2020 |chapter=The impact of anti-communism on white Rhodesian political culture, c.1920s-1980}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cilliers |first1=Jakkie |title=Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia |date=April 17, 2015 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9781315713854 |edition=e-Book 1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VHRKCAAAQBAJ |page=18<!--&q="rhodesian+front"+"white+supremacy"&pg=PT18--> |access-date=9 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/720978|jstor = 720978|title = Settler Colonialism in Rhodesia|last1 = Good|first1 = Kenneth|journal = African Affairs|year = 1974|volume = 73|issue = 290|pages = 10–36|doi = 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096439|url-access = subscription}}</ref><br />[[Nationalism|Rhodesian nationalism]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Preston|first=Matthew|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dND1vyuZefwC|title=Ending Civil War: Rhodesia and Lebanon in Perspective|editor=I.B.Tauris|date=2004|page=107|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9781850435792}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=West|first=Michael O.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=epkrt-Y-qOkC|title=The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965|editor=Indiana University Press|date=2002|page=229|publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0253215242}}</ref><br />[[National conservatism]]<ref>[https://www.mdpedia.net/view_html.php?sq=Obama%20Care&lang=en&q=Rhodesian_Front Rhodesian Front] {{dead link|date=April 2023}}</ref><br />[[Social conservatism]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Hume|first=Ian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aKVdDwAAQBAJ|title=From the Edge of Empire: A Memoir|editor=Outskirts Press|date=2018|page=149|publisher=Outskirts Press |isbn=9781478794554}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Roscoe|first=Adrian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIJ4ZTdc5VYC|title=The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945|editor=Columbia University Press|date=2007|page=35|publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231503792}}</ref><br />[[Anti-communism]]<ref name=Lowry/> <br /> [[Republicanism]] (after 1968)
| position         = [[Right-wing politics|Right-wing]]<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09574040701400601?journalCode=fswi20|doi = 10.1080/09574040701400601|title = The Wretched of the Empire: Politics, Ideology and Counterinsurgency in Rhodesia, 1965–80|year = 2007|last1 = Evans|first1 = Michael|journal = Small Wars & Insurgencies|volume = 18|issue = 2|pages = 175–195|s2cid = 144153887|url-access = subscription}}</ref> to [[far-right]]<ref>{{cite web|title=
'HOOLIGANS, SPIVS AND LOAFERS'? : THE POLITICS OF VAGRANCY IN 1960s SOUTHERN RHODESIA politics, c. 1950–62
|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259430188|date=2013-01-09|access-date=2025-03-13|quote=The 1950s in Southern Rhodesia has often been cast as a relatively progressive and prosperous passage, falling between the austerity and turbulence of the war years and the economic contraction, political repression, and rise of the far right Rhodesian Front that marked the end of the decade and early 1960s.|first=Jocelyn|last=Alexander}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title="Kith and Kin" or "Rhodesia First?": Kenyan decolonisation and inter-party competition in Southern Rhodesian politics, c. 1950–62|first=Marmon|last=Brooks|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cch.2021.0023|quote=the far-right Rhodesian Front came to power in 1962.|journal= Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History|date=2021|volume=22 |issue=2 |doi=10.1353/cch.2021.0023 |access-date=2025-03-13|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
| colours          = {{Color box|{{party color|Rhodesian Front}}|border=silver}} Purple {{Color box|#FFFFFF|border=silver}} White <!-- do not link colors per [[MOS:OL]] -->
| slogan           = <i>Rhodesia to the Front</i>
| flag             = [[File:Flag of the Rhodesian Front.svg{{!}}border|border=black|200px]]
| country          = Rhodesia
}}
{{Politics of Rhodesia}}
The '''Rhodesian Front''' ('''RF''') was a [[Conservatism|conservative]] [[political party]] in [[Southern Rhodesia]],<ref name="hsu-luckett-vause">{{cite book|last1=Hsu|first1=Chia Yin|last2=Luckett|first2=Thomas M.|last3=Vause|first3=Erika|title=The Cultural History of Money and Credit: A Global Perspective|date=2015|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=9781498505932|pages=142|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ByLuCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA142|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Onslow">{{cite book|last1=Onslow|first1=Sue|title=Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation|date=2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135219338|page=92|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xj-MAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA92|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Butler">{{cite book|last1=Butler|first1=L. J.|title=Britain and Empire: Adjusting to a Post-Imperial World|date=2002|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=9781860644481|page=164|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FciqvzTfAuEC&pg=PA164|access-date=19 February 2017|language=en}}</ref> subsequently known as [[Rhodesia]]. Formed in March 1962 by white Rhodesians opposed to decolonisation and majority rule, it won that December's [[1962 Southern Rhodesian general election|general election]] and subsequently spearheaded the country's [[Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence|Unilateral Declaration of Independence]] (UDI) from the [[Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland]] in 1965, remaining the ruling party and upholding white minority rule through the majority of the [[Rhodesian Bush War|Bush War]] until 1979. Initially led by [[Winston Field]], the party was led through most of its lifetime by co-founder [[Ian Smith]]. Following the end of the Bush War and the country's reconstitution as [[Zimbabwe]], it changed its name to the [[Republican Front (Zimbabwe)|Republican Front]] in 1981.