Andre Sothern Holland was a farmer and politician in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe from 1979) in the 1970s and 1980s.

His South African grandfather, Arthur Herbert was personal secretary to Cecil Rhodes[3] His South African grandmother, Madeleine Holland, was a poet and academic who studied the Bantu of modern-day of central and Southern Africa.

[3] Described as a "prominent member of Parliament" in April, 1981,[4] Andre started his political career as an MP under Ian Smith's Government in 1970.

He was known to believe in closing the wealth and land ownership gap between the white and black populations of Rhodesia.

Following the change of geographic political boundaries (in which Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe) in 1979, Andre split from Ian Smith's party, the Rhodesian Front, to form an alternative.