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    Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa (14 April 1925 – 8 April 2010), also commonly referred to as Bishop Muzorewa, was a Zimbabwean bishop and politician who served...
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    party during 1979–1980, when its leader Abel Muzorewa was Prime Minister. The party was founded by Muzorewa in 1971. Running as African National Council...
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    government of Ian Smith (later the Zimbabwe-Rhodesian government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa); Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the military wing of Robert...
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  • Republic politician Abel Maldonado (born 1967), American politician Abel Millington (1787–1838), American politician Abel Muzorewa (1925–2010), Rhodesian/Zimbabwean...
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    Smith succeeded by moderate Abel Muzorewa, failed to appease international critics or halt the war. By December 1979 Muzorewa had secured an agreement with...
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    Smith reached an accord with three African leaders, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who offered to leave the white population comfortably entrenched in...
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  • The delegation which represented Zimbabwe Rhodesia was led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa. This delegation also included Ian Smith (Minister without Portfolio)...
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    been used in the late 1960s. After taking office as Prime Minister, Abel Muzorewa sought to drop "Rhodesia" from the country's name. The name "Zimbabwe...
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    UANC) to organise and co-ordinate black opposition to the deal. Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the first black man to have been ordained as such in Rhodesia, was...
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    internationally recognized. The only prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia was Abel Muzorewa. The position was established on 1 June 1979, under the terms of the...
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    Smith and the moderate African nationalist leaders comprising Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and Senator Chief Jeremiah Chirau. After almost...
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    maintained forever. He oversaw the 1979 general election which resulted in Abel Muzorewa, a politically moderate black bishop, being elected Prime Minister of...
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    won 20 of the 80 common roll seats, with the remaining 3 going to Abel Muzorewa's United African National Council. Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front won all...
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    not approved internationally but the incoming government under Bishop Abel Muzorewa did decide to participate in the Lancaster House talks which led to...
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    incumbent President Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Rhodesia-era Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa, and ZANU–Ndonga leader Ndabaningi Sithole. Mugabe won, claiming over...
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    Zimbabwe-Rhodesia in which around 60% of the population voted, a government led by Abel Muzorewa, was formed in 1979 between Ian Smith and Ndabaningi Sithole's ZANU...
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  • National Union (ZANU) to unite with the African National Council of Rev. Abel Muzorewa. Unlike the other leaders, Chikerema remained in exile fearing arrest...
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    Rhodesia. In response, Banana joined with fellow Methodist cleric Bishop Abel Muzorewa to form the United African National Council (UANC), which opposed the...
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    1933. All subsequent predecessor-states continued with the post until Abel Muzorewa who became prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979 under the Internal...
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    Prime-minister Ian Smith (later the Zimbabwe-Rhodesian government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa) against the guerrilla forces of the African nationalist Liberation...
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    been placed them in "protected villages". Black nationalist leader Abel Muzorewa described the seven heavily-guarded, fenced "villages" as "concentration...
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  • rights activist, 2021 Anatoly Marchenko Holger Meins Akbar Mohammadi Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician and cleric, 1983 Tony Nicklinson Jock Palfreeman...
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    Ndabaningi Sithole, founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union, and Abel Muzorewa, the first and only Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, led the auxiliaries...
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  • alliance founded in Zimbabwe in 1994 led by retired Bishop Abel Muzorewa. An amalgamation of Muzorewa's former party, the United African National Council, and...
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    period of conflict, the country became known as Zimbabwe Rhodesia, with Abel Muzorewa as its first black prime minister. None of these acts were recognised...
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    theology at Lincoln University. Muzorewa is the younger brother of late former Zimbabwe-Rhodesia Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who led the country between...
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  • politician who served in the cabinet under prime ministers Ian Smith and Abel Muzorewa, and was later a Zimbabwean MP. He emigrated to South Africa in 1985...
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  • founder Ndabaningi Sithole, United African National Council leader Abel Muzorewa, Chief Jeremiah Chirau, and Walls. Any who abandoned the Bush War were...
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    sanctions on Southern Rhodesia nor recognise the government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa. He was for some years a member of the Conservative Monday Club as well...
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    elections of Margaret Thatcher as prime minister of the United Kingdom and Abel Muzorewa for Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, South Africa turning down a...
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