Zimbabwe: After Zanu-PF Formation in 1963, Next Stop Was Great Zimbabwe

After the first Zanu Congress held in the Midlands capital of Gweru, a historic event happened at the Great Zimbabwe monument that appears to have set the tone for the protracted war of liberation culminating in the delivery of a new Zimbabwe on April 18, 1980.

The Second Chimurenga had two phases; the initial phase, where seven brave guerrillas confronted Ian Smith’s mighty war machinery in 1966 marking what is now famously known as the Chinhoyi Battle. There was also a second and decisive phase…