AT the dawn of independence in 1980, Zimbabwean revolutionary Joshua Nkomo confronted ... plunged into civil conflict as Robert Mugabe moved ruthlessly to crush Nkomo’s support base.

Robert Mugabe from the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Joshua Nkomo from the Zimbabwe African People’s Union. The conflict was engulfed in Cold War politics. The revolutionaries were ...

After achieving independence in 1980 following almost a century of colonial rule as Southern Rhodesia, ZANU leader Cde Robert Mugabe ... former Vice President Joshua Nkomo's party ZAPU, to ...