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The name Zimbabwe was officially adopted concurrently with Britain's grant of independence in April 1980. Prior to that point, the country had been called Southern Rhodesia from 1898 to 1964 (or 1980, according to British law), Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979, and Zimbabwe Rhodesia between June and December 1979. Since Zimbabwean independence in ...
List of renamed places in Zimbabwe From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.
Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, [3] with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most common. Zimbabwe is a member of the United Nations, the Southern African Development Community, the African Union, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. The region was long inhabited by the San, and was settled by Bantu peoples around 2,000 years ago.
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who were on death row, in an independence day amnesty on Thursday. Zimbabwe marked 44 years of ...
The statue of Joshua Nkomo is a monument to the Zimbabwean vice president Joshua Nkomo [1] [2] in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. The bronze statue was produced by the North Korean company Mansudae Art Studio [ 3 ] and is erected at the intersection of Joshua Nkomo Street and 8th Avenue. [ 4 ]
On 18 November 2017, the Government of Zimbabwe decided to honor some of the nation's prominent Liberation War Heroes by renaming some of the country's military barracks after them. Llewellin Barracks, situated on the outskirts of the city of Bulawayo , was renamed Lookout Masuku Barracks for the late ZIPRA Commander.
John Smyth, a known child abuser in the UK, went to Zimbabwe and set up Christian holiday camps. I blame the Church for my brother’s death, says Zimbabwean sister of UK child abuser's victim ...
In the 1980 general election, Mugabe led ZANU-PF to victory, becoming Prime Minister when the country, now renamed Zimbabwe, gained internationally recognized independence later that year. Mugabe's administration expanded healthcare and education and—despite his professed desire for a socialist society —adhered largely to mainstream ...