Zimbabwe 2
Zimbabwe 2ZIMBABWE
It was over twenty years ago when Zimbabwe received its independence, and the country had likelihood to become an African success story: “good soil, lots of mineral resources and a new government that spoke of modernization and reform.” Although today Zimbabwe looks to be caught in a downward fall in economics and politics (TIME).“In April 1980, the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia was internationally recognized as the independent state of Zimbabwe. The country's new government was headed by the Zimbabwe National African Union-Patriotic Front(ZANU-PF), a group of African nationalists that had fought for a different kind of independence from that declared by Ian Smith's white regime in 1965”(TIME).
Robert Mugabe, ZANU-PF's former leader, became the first head of
Zimbabwe, calling for "a new spirit that must unite and not divide." Although while Zimbabwe had a fresh name and a fresh leader, it still had its former problems.The racial inequalities induced by white rule continued in the feud between black and white incomes and black Zimbabweans wanted their fair share of the chief farming territory that had been previously owned by the white settlers from the
1890’s till today (TIME).
Zimbabwe went bankrupted after the long war for freedom and the
economy was even weakened by the huge emigration of Europeans and a drought in the early 1980’s (TIME). The slow pace land reform led to tension in Matabeleland in southwestern Zimbabw and Zanu. But now, they were rivals and
the tensions between them and their ethnic groups increased as the government
accused ZAPU's leader, Joshua Nkomo,...
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