TODAY the liberation consists of the wings Patriotic Front, ZAPU and ZANU. ZAPU, formed in 1999 out of several lack Nkomo, nationalist groupings that were based mainly on intellectuals and middle class layers.
ZANU was formed in 1963 out of a split from ZAPU led by Sithole, Mugabe and Zuobogo.
ZAPU it was beaned and many of its leading cadre were jailed.
The split was primarily due to distrust in Nkomo's following the major made at the 1961 Constitutional Conference. membership of the party forced him to withdraw these concessions. It was also due to his failure to pursue an adequate guerilla war policy.
Although ZAPU is essentially a cross tribal party, and has been from its beginnings, the vast majority of its membership is matabele, west of Zimbabwe, Shona (the largest tribal group) are also members.
ZANU, originally based in the 'alisbury has hona leadership and membership However, •al a recent Bulawayo (an almost exclusively Matabele city) Mugabe attracted about 30,000 people. ethnic divisions, tribalism fias been a negligible factor so far.
ZAPU has been called 'Moscow oriented'; it has received arms training the USSR, Germany and so on, but Moscow's influence should not be exaggerated. Its programme is essentially bourgeois democratic, with a very vague policy on the crucial land question (50 per cent of the land is owned by the small white minority).
the Lancaster Agreement the large white farms and multinational agri-business not be touched. ZAPU policy is to appropriate only unused and underused white land.
ZANU has recently cooled its historical links with Peking, and has actively sought alliances and aid from the Moscow camp, especially Cuba. Nevertheless, a Maoist-type ideology. is dominant among its political cadre. ZANU pays more attention land question: than although proposals redistribution are rather vague.
ZANU's programme has always played second fiddle to. its tactics, which it has pursued more consistently than ZAPU.
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