Word: bulawayo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighting centered on Bulawayo, the country's second largest city. It is also one of the main locations where the government has been trying to fuse a national army by integrating the two rival guerrilla forces that fought for independence as the Patriotic Front: the ZANLA forces that were led by Mugabe and are composed mostly of Shona tribesmen; and the ZIPRA guerrillas, mostly Ndebele, who remain loyal to Joshua Nkomo. As last week's clashes intensified, ZIPRA and ZANLA units grabbed weapons from the camp's armory and summoned other former guerrillas to come help them...
...grassy hill near the southwestern town of Bulawayo lies the tomb of Cecil Rhodes, the English diamond millionaire who took the white man's burden to southern Africa and founded the colony that bore his name. Rhodes, even with his ambitious vision, could never have contemplated a black-ruled Rhodesia with a Shona tribesman at its head. Yet the two leaders had at least one thing in common: each had an almost mystical belief that his personal destiny was intertwined with that of this hauntingly beautiful country. As Robert Mugabe took on the burden of governing and rebuilding that...
Forebodings of danger have not cramped Nkomo's electioneering style While his ally turned rival Mugabe was sulking in Mozambique, Nkomo held huge rallies for blacks in Salisbury and Bulawayo under the Patriotic Front banner, which he has cleverly appropriated to his own party. He also wooed groups of white businessmen, industrialists and farmers. Nkomo's basic campaign message: reconciliation, political moderation and racial harmony. In contrast to much of his previous rhetoric from exile in Zambia, his official platform makes no mention of socialism or large-scale nationalizations...