Question: Denis Stanley Tomlinson (4 September 1910 – 11 July 1993) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1935, he was born in Umtali, in which unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territorial terms to modern Zimbabwe?

Context articles: Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence
Gobo Ashley
Zimbabwe Rhodesia
Rhodesia
Biddy Anderson
Victoria Falls Conference (1975)
Denis Tomlinson
George Tapscott
Len Tuckett
Temba Bavuma

The Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) was a statement adopted by the Cabinet of Rhodesia on 11 November 1965, announcing that Rhodesia, a British territory in southern Africa that had governed itself since 1923, now regarded itself as an independent sovereign state.
 The culmination of a protracted dispute between the British and Rhodesian governments regarding the terms under which the latter could become fully independent, it was the first unilateral break from the United Kingdom by one of its colonies since the United States Declaration of Independence nearly two centuries before.
 Britain, the Commonwealth and the United Nations all deemed Rhodesia's UDI illegal, and economic sanctions, the first in the UN's history, were imposed on the breakaway colony.
 Amid near-complete international isolation, Rhodesia continued as an unrecognised state with the assistance of South Africa and Portugal.
William Hare 'Gobo' Ashley (10 February 1862 – 14 July 1930) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1889, the second Test ever played by his country.
 He took 7 wickets for 95 runs in the only innings he played in, becoming only the second South African to take a five-wicket haul after Albert Rose-Innes during that inaugural South African Test earlier in the year.
 Ashley went on to play a further three first-class matches for Western Province in South African domestic cricket in a three year career from 1888 until 1891, taking thirteen wickets in all.
Zimbabwe Rhodesia was an unrecognised state that existed from 1 June 1979 to 12 December 1979.
 Zimbabwe Rhodesia was preceded by an unrecognized republic named Rhodesia and was briefly followed by the re-established British colony of Southern Rhodesia, which according to British constitutional theory had remained the proper government after Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965.
 About three months later, the re-established colony of Southern Rhodesia was granted internationally recognised independence as the Republic of Zimbabwe.
Rhodesia ( ), commonly known from 1970 onwards as the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territorial terms to modern Zimbabwe.
 With its capital in Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia was considered a "de facto" successor state to the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia (which had achieved responsible government in 1923).
James Henry "Biddy" Anderson (26 April 1874 in Kimberley, South Africa – 11 March 1926 in Bredasdorp, Cape Province) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1902, when he captained South Africa against Australia in Johannesburg.
The Victoria Falls Conference took place on 26 August 1975 aboard a South African Railways train halfway across the Victoria Falls Bridge on the border between the unrecognised state of Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) and Zambia.
 It was the culmination of the "détente" policy introduced and championed by B. J. Vorster, the Prime Minister of South Africa, which was then under apartheid and was attempting to improve its relations with the Frontline States to Rhodesia's north, west and east by helping to produce a settlement in Rhodesia.
 The participants in the conference were a delegation led by the Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith on behalf of his government, and a nationalist delegation attending under the banner of Abel Muzorewa's African National Council (UANC), which for this conference also incorporated delegates from the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe (FROLIZI).
 Vorster and the Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda acted as mediators in the conference, which was held on the border in an attempt to provide a venue both sides would accept as neutral.
Denis Stanley Tomlinson (4 September 1910 – 11 July 1993) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1935.
 He was born in Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe) and died in Durban, Natal.
George Lancelot 'Dusty' Tapscott (7 November 1889, in Barkly West, Cape Province – 13 December 1940, in Kimberley, South Africa) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1913.
 His brother, Lionel, also played Test cricket for South Africa and his sister Billie was a tennis player who reached the quarterfinals at the French Championships and Wimbledon.
Lindsay Richard 'Len' Tuckett (19 April 1885 – 8 April 1963) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1914.
 He was the father of Lindsay who also played Test cricket.
 He played for the teams of South Africa, Natal, and Orange Free State.
Temba Bavuma (born 17 May 1990 in Cape Town, Cape Province) is a South African cricketer who plays for Cape Cobras in domestic level and for South Africa in Test level.
 He is the first black African cricketer to make a Test century for South Africa.
 Bavuma was educated at South African College Junior School in Newlands, and St David's Marist Inanda High School in Sandton.