A 1976 report on how the law was used under white-minority rule

After the unilateral declaration of independence of 1965, Southern Rhodesia was governed by its white minority. The International Commission of Jurists examined that system as lawyers do, through its laws: what they allowed and how they were enforced. Its findings came out in 1976 as a legal study, published jointly with the Catholic Institute for International Relations from London and Geneva.

The report goes subject by subject: land and housing, schooling, the vote, freedom of expression and of assembly, detention, the security forces and the conduct of the police. Written while white-minority rule still held, four years before Zimbabwe became independent in 1980, it is a source from the time itself for the history of colonial power and of the struggle for liberation.

This copy is an illustrated paperback of about 118 pages, with some rubbing to the covers and edges and some foxing or toning. The binding is serviceable.