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Ndabaningi Sithole Biography and Timeline

Follow Ndabaningi Sithole through 2 dated historical records for Zimbabwe.

Ndabaningi Sithole, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

2Distinct records
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1963–1975Years on this page

1963

ZANU

Politics / ZANU

The Zimbabwe African National Union party is founded by Ndabaningi Sithole, Herbert Chitepo, Edgar Tekere, Leopold Takawira and Robert Mugabe at the house of former Defence minister Enos Nkala in Highfield

1975

ZANU

Politics / ZANU

The minority Ndau follow Sithole into the moderate Zanu (Ndonga) party (known later as ZANU Mwenje), who renounce violent struggle, while the majority Shona follow Mugabes ZANU with a more militant agenda

Records, sources and methodology

These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.