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	Zimbabwe – FREE Zimbabwe Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		Zimbabwe's official language is English, with Shona and Ndebele being the predominant African languages.
		Most of Zimbabwe's power is generated by a hydroelectric station at Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River.
		Zimbabwe is governed under the 1979 constitution as amended.
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	History of Zimbabwe
		In the early 16th century the Portuguese arrived and destroyed this trade and began a series of wars which left the empire so weakened that it was near collapse in the early 17th century.
		The country was renamed Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, with Muzorewa as Prime Minister.
		In 2002 Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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	Zimbabwe - MSN Encarta
		Zimbabwe (pronounced /zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ/), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, and formerly Southern Rhodesia, the Republic of Rhodesia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia, is a landlocked...
		Stone building reached its first peak in the city of Great Zimbabwe, which was built between the 11th and 15th centuries.
		The whole of present-day Zimbabwe was brought under the control of Changamire and became known as the Rozwi Empire.
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	History
		The recent history of Zimbabwe is the same struggle that many African Nations had to escape European Colonialism and then form democratic governments.
		Zimbabwe had a strong economy and plently of natural resources; but inflation and unemployment were problems that brought political tensions.
		The problems of Zimbabwe are important for us to focus on; because multinational or multicultural regions such as Iraq, Sudan, Bosnia, Kashmir and Bolivia are structures arranged by European colonial rule, some with old tribal or religious conflicts that are exploding with serious consequences for the whole world.
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	History of ZIMBABWE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the 15th century Great Zimbabwe is eclipsed by two other kingdoms, one to the south at Khami (near modern Bulawayo) and one to the north, near Mount Darwin.
		Lobengula is the son of Mzilikazi, the leader of the Ndebele who established a new kingdom (in present-day Zimbabwe) after being driven north by the Boers in 1837.
		The land problem is likely to remain on Zimbabwe's political agenda rather longer than Mugabe himself, whose dictatorial behaviour and attempts to cling to power become increasingly extreme as the new millennium progresses.
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		Great Zimbabwe consists of numerous stone walls occupying a valley which is dominated on its northern side by a steep hill on which the great granite boulders have been incorporated into a single structure by intricate stone walling creating enclosures and passages.
		Zimbabwe was a development of trends we have already seen in the states to the south.
		There are still many signs of the ancient gold mines of Zimbabwe in which gold bearing ore was followed down from the surface and removed with metal picks and shovels, often having first been loosened by the application of fire.
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	Great Zimbabwe
		Located in the south central African nation of Zimbabwe are the ruins of monuments and cities built of stone.
		Zimbabwe was occupied from the 13th to the 15th centuries by ancestors of the Shona.
		The population of Great Zimbabwe, previously estimated at 1,000 before the outside dwelling areas were taken into consideration, is now believed to have been as high as 18,000.
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	Zimbabwe information - Search.com
		Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), is a landlocked country in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.
		Zimbabwe withdrew from the Commonwealth on 7 December 2003.
		Zimbabwe is a landlocked country, surrounded by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east and northeast.
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	Zimbabwe - History
		The independent nation of Zimbabwe was proclaimed on 18 April 1980, and the new parliament opened on 14 May 1980.
		A growing problem, however, was the political instability of Zimbabwe's neighbors to the south and east.
		The birth of the NCA dovetailed with the growing radicalization of the Zimbabwe Confederation of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and its transformation from a collective bargaining agent for organized urban industrial labor into a broad-based political opposition movement representing a wide spectrum of civil society, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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	History of Zimbabwe: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is the history of Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa.
		In the early 16th century AD the Portuguese arrived and destroyed this trade and began a series of wars which left the empire so weakened that it was near collapse in the early 17th century.
		At least 20,000 Matabele died in the ensuing near-genocidal massacres, perpetrated by an elite, communist-trained brigade, known in Zimbabwe as the Gukurahundi.
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	History of Zimbabwe
		The Republic of Zimbabwe came into being on April 18, 1980, in a ceremony attended by Britain's Prince Charles.
		In 1999, facing decreasing support, he orchestrated the invasion of white-owned farms despite the severe drought in the region for redistribution to his supporters by the war veterans and youth militia (green bombers).
		This lead to the destruction of much of Zimbabwe's agricultural base and over 100,000 farmers, farm workers and their families losing their homes and jobs through the often violent seizing of farms throughout 1999 and to date resulting in the decimation of the Zimbabwean economy.
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	History of Zimbabwe
		In 1974, the major African nationalists groups--the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which split away from ZAPU in 1963--were united into the "Patriotic Front" and combined their military forces, at least nominally.
		In a series of public statements during the transition period, Prime Minister Mugabe indicated that he was committed to a process of national reconciliation and reconstruction as well as moderate socioeconomic change.
		Zimbabwe became a member of the United Nations on August 25, 1980.
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	Zimbabwe History \| iExplore
		Present-day Zimbabwe was the site of a large and complex African civilization in the 13th and 14th centuries.
		Mozambique on either side of Zimbabwe – until the 1830s, when the region was thrown into upheaval by the northward migration of the Ndebele people from South Africa.
		Although Zimbabwe is better developed than many of its neighbors (especially as regards basic infrastructure such as roads, telecommunications, water and electricity), much of this benefit has been squandered or allowed to disintegrate through neglect.
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	Africatravelco - Overland Safaris and Adventures
		History Present-day Zimbabwe was the site of a large and complex African civilization in the 13th and 14th centuries.
		Mainly pastoral, evidence of their lifestyle may be seen in the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, near the present-day town of Masvingo.
		Relations between the two were fairly stable — the Portuguese were largely concerned with ensuring communications between their colonies in Angola and Mozambique on either side of Zimbabwe - Until the1830s, when the region was thrown into upheaval by the northward migration of the Ndebele people from South Africa.
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	ZIMBABWE
		This ancient African kingdom organized and controlled the gold and ivory caravans that proceeded from the interior to the southeast coast of Africa where tra de was conducted with Arabia and India for textiles, utensils, glassware and weaponry.
		By 1895, in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), for example, the Africans were forced off all the good farmland, their movements restricted, and ultimately left no recourse but to work as laborers on "white owned" land.
		No one is watching events in Zimbabwe with more concern than the white minority in South Africa which, though no longer in power, still controls the land, the precious, invaluable land of the richest nation in the Motherland...
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	globalEDGE (TM) \| country insights - History of Zimbabwe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Higher education, offered at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, the new National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo, the new Africa (Methodist) University in Mutare, several teacher-training colleges, and three technical institutes, are being expanded with assistance from several donor countries.
		The Commonwealth suspended Zimbabwe from council meetings for one year after its election observer team found the election neither free nor fair.
		At this meeting, despite vigorous campaigning by South Africa, Zimbabwe was not invited to attend the meeting and the Commonwealth decided to continue with the suspension.
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	A short history of Zimbabwe
		Since 1987 Zimbabwe is a presidential republic and Mugabe becomes presitdent.
		However the voter turnout is low and the campaign is not free and fair although the actual balloting is. Not satisfied with a de facto one-party state, Mugabe calls the ZANU-PF central committee to support the creation of a de jure one-party state in 1990 and lost.
		Beginning in 1999, Zimbabwe experiences a period of considerable political and economic upheaval.
	www.electionworld.org /history/zimbabwe.htm (786 words)

	Weblog special: Zimbabwe \| Weblog \| Guardian Unlimited
		Zimbabwe's independent Daily News says in a headline that Mr Tsvingirai is 'on trial for his country'.
		Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth after a three-man team accepted that elections had not been free or fair.
		This Zimbabwe Independent leader is an impassioned attack on the violence of war veterans toward white landowners last summer.
	www.guardian.co.uk /weblog/special/0,10627,536901,00.html (859 words)

	Zimbabwe: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		In 2000, veterans of Zimbabwe's war for independence in the 1970s began squatting on land owned by white farmers in an effort to reclaim land taken under British colonization—one-third of Zimbabwe's arable land was owned by 4,000 whites.
		Zimbabwe, ruined city, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe Zimbabwe [Bantu,=stone houses], ruined city, SE Zimbabwe, near Fort Victoria.
		Zimbabwe - Map of Zimbabwe & articles on flags, geography, history, statistics, disasters current events, and international relations.
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	AFRICA, ZIMBABWE, HISTORY, GREAT ZIMBABWE
		By 1906, examination of artifacts indicated Great Zimbabwe had been built by metal-culture Africans - probably the ancestors of the Shona people.
		Zimbabwe is derived from Shona words meaning"house of stone" or "stone enclosure".
		Great Zimbabwe is actually a complex of structures descending from a hill near present day Masvingo.
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	Zimbabwe, History
		Zimbabwe was the last African country to acquire national independence in 1980 after extensive fights against formerly white-ruled South Rhodesia.
		In rural areas of Zimbabwe, African traditions are still very much alive today, although they are more and more replaced by modern, Western lifestyles in the cities, popular mainly with to young people.
		A closer look at modern Zimbabwe and its people reveals, however, that in the suburbs of big cities such as Harare, Bulawayo or Chitungwiza, the often-nightlong traditional ceremonies have lost nothing of their original impact.
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	World History Blog: Zimbabwe
		This is a brief overview to the history of the African nation of Zimbabwe.
		It is interesting to note that although Great Zimbabwe is in the area of several rivers it is not actually on the shores of a river.
		Great Zimbabwe was used and built as a religious center and a place from which they worshipped Mwari, the creator of all life as well as the sustainer of all things.
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	Britain Zimbabwe Society (BZS)
		Great Zimbabwe 'is not a ruin as the colonisers had us believe'; it is 'a sacred spirit place' and 'to connect from it spiritually and move on up is a most significant spiritual starting point for all Africans'.
		It was at Great Zimbabwe, after all, that a medium of Nehanda had been arrested, tried and sentenced to death in 1982 for refusing to admit that Mugabe had a right to declare an end to the war for land.
		Her academic field is urban history and she is writing a doctorate on colonial policies towards African township housing in Salisbury and on the clashes between the Southern Rhodesian government, the Municipalities, the rate-payers, industry and African residents.
	www.britain-zimbabwe.org.uk /RDreport04.htm (9707 words)

	Zimbabwe National History
		In February 2000 a referendum was held on a new draft constitution favoured by the government.
		Many foreign reporters were banned from entering Zimbabwe and local journalists were prosecuted for reporting 'false news'.
		Upon independence in 1980, Zimbabwe had a balance of payments surplus, a low foreign debt and regularly exported surplus food.
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	Zimbabwe: history (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Zimbabwe citadel and palace were taken over by the Rotsi, whose Changamira (king) extended his control over the mining area.
		These were evident by figures in a technical report on Zimbabweâs land-tenure system: 4,500 farmers (most of them white) owned 50 per cent of the countryâs productive land while the 4.5 million peasants lived in communally- owned rural areas - known as âtribal landsâ, where the fl population were moved to during the colonial era.
		Pressured again by Western countries and also by his southern African neighbors, who were concerned about the repercussions of Zimbabwe's crisis on their economies, Mugabe decided to halt the illegal land occupations in exchange for major financial aid from Britain to compensate the white farmers whose land had been expropriated.
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	Brief History of Zimbabwe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zimbabwe was first heard of from reports gathered by the Portuguese in the African proto-state of Monomotapa or Mwanamutapa (Mwenemutapa), whose rulers claimed descent from Zimbabwe.
		Zimbabwe is trapped in a vicious circle in which the minority that produces the wealth distrusts Mugabe and Mugabe, who wants the wealth shared, scares off the producers of the wealth from investing in Zimbabwe.
		The capital of Zimbabwe is Harare, formerly Salisbury.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /history/z/Zimbabwe_brief.htm (405 words)

	Cricinfo - A brief history of Zimbabwe cricket
		Between 1983 and 1992 Zimbabwe played in three World Cup competitions, but were forced to qualify for each in an ICC Trophy competition among the associate members.
		Zimbabwe's first Test victory came in its 11th match, in 1994-95, when Pakistan were roundly defeated at Harare Sports Club by an innings and 64 runs.
		In one-day internationals Zimbabwe also took a long time to find their confidence and master the techniques of winning, although occasional victories showed what could be achieved.
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