The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on
![A busy scene with lots of people milling around, Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa and British Foreign Secretary Peter Carington are sat and are in the process of signing pact. A man is lent between them picking up the pact.](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/GettyImages-3292377.jpg)
On 21 December 1979 an agreement ended the illegal white-dominated regime that ruled Rhodesia since 1965, and ushered in the newly independent state of Zimbabwe.
On 21 December 1979 an agreement ended the illegal white-dominated regime that ruled Rhodesia since 1965, and ushered in the newly independent state of Zimbabwe.