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Events on Monday 2 March 1970 1
1970Rhodesia Declares Itself a RepublicWhite-minority government severs final ties to the British CrownRhodesia's white-minority government under Ian Smith proclaimed the country a republic, five years after its unilateral declaration of independence from Britain. The move deepened the country's international isolation amid sanctions over minority rule.