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Article: Zimbabwe: Chapter 4C. Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front
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Chapter 4C. Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front
At independence ZANU-PF was by no means a cohesive party. Its
leaders had
been hastily reassembled, some of them guerrillas who had conducted
years of
bitter bush warfare. Many had just been released from political detention;
others had been in exile promoting the nationalist cause in Africa
and other
world capitals. They were not motivated by a single ideology, their
attitudes
ranging from strident Marxism to old-style African nationalism. ZANU-
PF's
policymaking body, the central committee, was crisscrossed by conflicting
interests, although these could be traced more to tribal and personality
clashes ...