The Patriotic Front in

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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 socialist organisation that fought against white-minority rule in Rhodesia, formed as a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) in 1963. ZANU split in 1975 into wings l ...

(ZANU) which had worked together to fight against white minority rule in

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. In 1980 elections ZAPU contested as Patriotic Front whereas ZANU contested as ZANU-Patriotic Front. In 1988 the ruling ZANU absorbed ZAPU to become Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) for good.

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