Kwete - No!: The Veto of Four Percent of the Governed: The Ill-Fated Anglo-Rhodesian Settlement Agreement, 1969-1972

The 1969 republican constitution of the Rhodesia was intended to secure recognition for Ian Smith's 1965 UDI. Given the evasion by significant nations of the trade sanctions imposed by the UN, the gamble was that this de facto recognition would become de jure.