<P> It took nearly three years for the CAF (as the new Federation became popularly known) to be established . </P> <P> Following the insistence and reassurances of the Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister, Sir Godfrey Huggins, a little more than 25,000 white Southern Rhodesians voted in a referendum for a federal government, versus nearly 15,000 against . A majority of Afrikaners and black Africans in all three territories were resolutely against it . </P> <P> The semi-independent federation (a' quasi-dominion') was finally established, with five branches of government: one Federal, three Territorial, and one British . This often translated into confusion and jurisdictional rivalry among various levels of government . According to Blake, it proved to be "one of the most elaborately governed countries in the world ." </P> <P> Huggins became the first Prime Minister from 1953 to 1956, followed by Sir Roy Welensky, a prominent Northern Rhodesian politician, from 1956 to the Federation's dissolution in December 1963 . </P>

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