1980 in Zimbabwe
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The following lists events that happened during 1980 in Zimbabwe.
Incumbents
- President: Canaan Banana (starting 18 April)
- Prime Minister: Robert Mugabe (starting 18 April)
Events
- April 17 - Zimbabwe gains independence from the United Kingdom, recognised internationally.
- 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.
References
- ^ 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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