PK van der Byl

SALISBURY, RHODESIA, 1976: Pieter Kenyon Fleming-Voltelyn van der Byl, known as PK van der Byl was a South African-born Rhodesian politician who served as the country's Foreign Minister from 1974 to 1979 as a member of the Rhodesian Front. . The history of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979 covers Rhodesia's time as a state unrecognized by the international community following the predominantly white minority government's Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11 November 1965. Headed by Prime Minister Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Front remained in government until 1 June 1979, when the country was reconstituted as Zimbabwe Rhodesia. and Robert Mugabe became President. (Photo by Paul Harris/Getty Images)