The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic 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 People's Union (ZAPU) and retaining the name ZANU–PF, until 2017, when he was removed as leader.
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.
Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east. The capital and largest city is Harare, and the second largest is Bulawayo.
Towers of Great Zimbabwe
The Battle of the Shangani on 25 October 1893
Ian Smith signing the Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11 November 1965 with his cabinet in audience
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe attending the Independence Day celebrations in South Sudan in July 2011.