ZANU–PF
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The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front is a political organisation which has been the ruling party of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The party was led for many years by Robert Mug
Ndabaningi Sithole, ZANU's founding president, in 1955.
ZANU–PF party regalia bearing the image of President Robert Mugabe in the 2008 general election.
Robert and Grace Mugabe at a ZANU–PF rally in 2013.
Delegates from Zimbabwe and the ZANU–PF Youth League dance at the closing of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Johannesburg, 2010.
Robert Mugabe
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Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary, politician, and dictator who led Zimbabwe from 1980 until 2017. He served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as its secon
ZANU–PF
…Front (ZANU–PF) is a political organisation which has been the ruling party of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The party was led for many years by Robert Mugabe, first as prime minister with the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and then as president from 1987 after the merger with the Zimbabwe African…
Official portrait, 1995
Mugabe was inspired by the example set by Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah.
Joshua Nkomo became one of the leading figures of resistance to white minority rule in Southern Rhodesia.
While Mugabe was imprisoned, Ian Smith became leader of Rhodesia.