second chimurenga

Nkomo (left) meets Mandela

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980:National Democratic Party (NDP)

• When the ANC was banned Africans viewed this as imperialists did not want to end racial segregation
• The bans were only temporal as other African nationalists educated in the diaspora rose, […]
  

Nkomo and Garfield Todd

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980:The Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU)

• It was formed eight days after the NDP was banned
• The Whitehead government was planning for election in 1962 under the new constitution
• It constricted its repressive laws and […]
  

Mugabe the Secretary General of Zanu PF

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980:The Zimbabwe African National Union and the People’s Caretaker Council (PPC)

• After disputes in the nationalist ZAPU, they split into two groups as there was dissatisfaction over Nkomo’s leadership after he accepted […]
  

Ian Smith signing the UDI.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980:  The Armed Struggle (1966-1979)

• Nationalists saw that the use of violence and war could not be avoided
• Many other factors also caused the outbreak of the Chimurenga ranging from reformist pressure politics to […]
  

Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980: Chimurenga II/ Umvukela II

 Introduction

• This topic seeks to evaluate early protest movements in Southern Rhodesia
• It enumerates the list of grievances that Africans had against colonial rule
• The social and economic lives of […]