Patriotic Front (Zimbabwe)

The Patriotic Front in

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

was a coalition of two African Leadership parties: the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) and the

Zimbabwe African National Union The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) was a militant organisation that Rhodesian Bush War, fought against White people in Zimbabwe, white minority rule in Rhodesia, formed as a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU). ZANU sp ...

(ZANU) which had worked together to fight against

white minority rule In political science, minoritarianism (or minorityism) is a neologism for a political structure or process in which a minority segment of a population has a certain degree of primacy in that entity's decision making. Minoritarianism may be cont ...

Rhodesia Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of S ...

. In 1980 elections ZAPU contested as Patriotic Front whereas ZANU contested as ZANU-Patriotic Front. In 1988 the ruling ZANU absorbed ZAPU to become imbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front(ZANU-PF) for good. Defunct political parties in Zimbabwe Defunct political party alliances in Africa Political parties with year of disestablishment missing Political parties with year of establishment missing Political party alliances in Zimbabwe Socialist parties in Zimbabwe ZANU–PF Zimbabwe African People's Union {{Africa-party-stub