Rhodesia did not fall on the battlefield. It was dismantled in negotiation rooms, foreign ministries, and the shifting power politics of the late Cold War.
In this episode, we trace the long unravelling of a state caught between insurgency, international isolation, and the ambitions of superpowers who viewed it as expendable. From UDI to Mozambique’s collapse, from South Africa’s strategic retreat to the Lancaster House settlement, we examine how a country once certain of its survival was slowly forced into a corner it could no longer escape.

This is the story of what really happened — the alliances, the betrayals, the rivalries within the liberation movements, and the geopolitical pressures that shaped the birth of Zimbabwe and the end of Rhodesia.

Measured, detailed, and unflinching, this episode cuts through myth and nostalgia to reveal the forces that unmade a nation.

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