ZAPU
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ZAPU | Zimbabwe African People's Union |
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Mugabe oversaw the execution of thousands of supporters of the rival
Zimbabwe African People's Union. As president, he has expropriated the holdings of white farmers, ruined the nation's economy, intervened in Congo's civil war and, in the recent national elections, waged a systematic campaign of terror that prompted his opponent to withdraw.
They belonged to the same Ndbele ethnic group as Joshua Nkomo, whose
Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) was effectively crushed.
Police anti-riot squads moved in as hundreds of blacks danced and demonstrated for the Patriotic Front outside the political offices of Nkomo's banned
Zimbabwe African People's Union.
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