Zimbabwe 2

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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, of induced violence in the region. The
government began a military campaign against the dissidents that claimed
thousands of lives.
In 1987, Mugabe and Nkomo resolved there feud, agreeing to merge the
two factions into a single-party Marxist-Leninist government (TIME ). Mugabe
became Zimbabwe's first executive President and the larger ZANU-PF went on to
win the 1990 elections. After a decade in office Mugabe had come closer to his
vision of a one-party socialist rule, and he demonstrated this by cracking down on student protests ...

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