1980 in Zimbabwe
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The following lists events that happened during 1980 in Zimbabwe.
Incumbents
[edit]- President: Canaan Banana (starting 18 April)
- Prime Minister: Robert Mugabe (starting 18 April)
Events
[edit]- April 18 - Zimbabwe's independence from the United Kingdom is recognised internationally, and the country becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations - which remains the case until December 2003, when Zimbabwe left the Commonwealth of Nations.
- April 18 - Canaan Banana, a Methodist minister and theologian, becomes the first President of Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe becomes the first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
- July 31 - The Zimbabwean field hockey team wins the gold medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics celebrated in Moscow (USSR)[1] (see also Zimbabwe at the 1980 Summer Olympics and Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics).
- August 25 - Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.[2]
- November 8 - Enos Nkala makes remarks at a rally in Bulawayo, in which he warns ZAPU that ZANU would deliver a few blows against them.[3] This starts the first Entumbane uprising, in which Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army and Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army fight for two days.
Deaths
[edit]This section lists deaths in Zimbabwe during 1980.
References
[edit]- ^ Caught in Time: Zimbabwe win hockey gold, 1980 Moscow Olympics, The Sunday Times, May 11, 2008.
- ^ ABC News
- ^ Stiff, Peter (2000). Cry Zimbabwe: independence-twenty years on. Galago.
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