Robert Gabriel Mugabe1979
The parties to the Lancaster House talks agree on a new constitution for a new Republic of Zimbabwe with elections in February 1980
Zimbabwe · Politics / ZANU. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The parties to the Lancaster House talks agree on a new constitution for a new Republic of Zimbabwe with elections in February 1980
After a campaign marked by intimidation from all sides, mistrust from security forces and reports of full ballot boxes found on the road, the Shona majority is decisive in electing Mugabe to head the first Government as Prime Minister
ZANU allies itself with the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) in the Patriotic Front (PF), the two parties adopting the names ZANU-PF and PF-ZAPU respectively, but they split after achieving majority rule.
ZANU win 57 out of 80 Common Roll seats in the new Parliament, with the 20 white seats all going to the Rhodesian Front.
The election is won by Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF, with Joshua Nkomo and his PF-ZAPU retaining a stronghold in the province of Matabeleland
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