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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 ...
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.
After Mugabe's ascension to power in 1980, Salisbury's Andrew Fleming Medical Centre was renamed Parirenyatwa Hospital by the Zimbabwean government and opened to all races. [ 7 ] The legacy of Parirenyatwa's work continues since his son, David Parirenyatwa —also a medical doctor—served as Zimbabwe's Minister of Health from 2002 to 2009 and ...
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.
History Today (Jan 1968), Vol. 18 Issue 1, p45-52 online; Sachikonye, Lloyd M. When a state turns on its citizens: 60 years of institutionalised violence in Zimbabwe (African Books Collective, 2011). Sibanda, Eliakim M. The Zimbabwe African People's Union, 1961–87: a political history of insurgency in Southern Rhodesia (Africa World Press, 2005).
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 ...
Mutare, formerly known as Umtali until 1982, [2] is the capital and largest city in the province of Manicaland.It is the third most populated in Zimbabwe.Having surpassed Gweru in the 2012 census, with an urban population of 224,802 and approximately 260,567 in the surrounding districts, Mutare adds to the wider metropolitan area a total population of over 500,000 people. [3]
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