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1980 in Zimbabwe

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Decades:
  
1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

See also:
  
Other events of 1980 Timeline of Zimbabwean history

The following lists events that happened during 1980 in Zimbabwe.

Contents

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) (see also Zimbabwe at the 1980 Summer Olympics and Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics).
  • August 25 - Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
  • 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. This starts the first Entumbane uprising, in which Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army and Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army fight for two days.

    • References

    1980 in Zimbabwe Wikipedia
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