The Republic of Zimbabwe, formerly known as Southern Rhodesia

Southern Rhodesia

Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated north of the Limpopo River and the Union of South Africa. From its independence in 1965 until its extinction in 1980, it was known as Rhodesia...

, the Republic of Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe Rhodesia

Zimbabwe Rhodesia

Zimbabwe Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, was an unrecognized state that existed from 1 June 1979 to 12 December 1979...

, is a landlocked sovereign country located in Southern Africa

Southern Africa

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. Within the region are numerous territories, including the Republic of South Africa ; nowadays, the simpler term South Africa is generally reserved for the country in English.-UN...

, between the Zambezi River and Limpopo River

Limpopo River

The Limpopo River rises in central southern Africa, and flows generally eastwards to the Indian Ocean. It is around long, with a drainage basin in size. Its mean annual discharge is 170 m³/s at its mouth...

.

Starting about 800 years ago (circa 1250) the area was ruled until 1629 by the Mutapa Empire, renowned for its gold trade routes with the Arabs. In 1834, the Ndebele people

Ndebele people (Zimbabwe)

The Ndebele are a branch of the Zulus who split from King Shaka in the early 1820s under the leadership of Mzilikazi, a former general in Shaka's army....

 arrived while fleeing from the Zulu

Zulu Kingdom

The Zulu Kingdom, sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire or, rather imprecisely, Zululand, was a monarchy in Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to Pongola River in the north....

 leader Shaka

Shaka

Shaka kaSenzangakhona , also known as Shaka Zulu , was the most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom....

, making the area their new empire, Matabeleland

Matabeleland

Modern day Matabeleland is a region in Zimbabwe divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo and Matabeleland South. These provinces are in the west and south-west of Zimbabwe, between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers. The region is named after its inhabitants, the Ndebele people...

. In the 1880s, the British arrived with Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company

British South Africa Company

The British South Africa Company was established by Cecil Rhodes through the amalgamation of the Central Search Association and the Exploring Company Ltd., receiving a royal charter in 1889...

 and colonized the area, and it became known as Southern Rhodesia in 1898. The country attained recognised independence in 1980, along with a new name (Zimbabwe), new flag, and new government led by Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...

 of the Zimbabwe African National Union

Zimbabwe African National Union

The Zimbabwe African National Union was a militant organization that fought against the standing government in Rhodesia, formed as a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union...

.

In 2000, under the leadership of Mugabe an effort was undertaken to redistribute land from white holders (predominantly large farms) to 250,000 Africans.

Zimbabwe is currently experiencing an economic and food crisis, described by some observers as the country's worst humanitarian crisis since independence, and it has been attributed in varying degrees to government economic mismanagement, government prohibitions on relief efforts from foreign NGOs (non-governmental organizations), a drought affecting the entire region, and the HIV

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

/AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 epidemic.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Zimbabwe.

General reference

• Pronunciation
  International Phonetic Alphabet
  The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...
  
  :
• Common English country name: Zimbabwe
  Zimbabwe
  Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
  
  
• Official English country name: The Republic of Zimbabwe
• Common endonym(s):
• Official endonym(s):
• Adjectival(s): Zimbabwean
• Demonym(s):
• Etymology
  Etymology
  Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during...
  
  : Name of Zimbabwe
• International rankings of Zimbabwe
  International rankings of Zimbabwe
  - International rankings :...
  
  
• ISO country codes: ZW, ZWE, 716
• ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:ZW
  ISO 3166-2:ZW
  ISO 3166-2:ZW is the entry for Zimbabwe in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Zimbabwe, ISO 3166-2 codes are...
  
  
• Internet
  Internet
  The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
  
   country code top-level domain
  Country code top-level domain
  A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....
  
  : .zw
  .zw
  .zw is the Internet country code top-level domain for Zimbabwe.Although no registry Web site is shown in the IANA whois listing, at least .co.zw registrations are presently being taken by the Zimbabwe Internet Service Providers Association, whose charter claims that one of the purposes of the...
  
  

Geography of Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe is: a landlocked country
• Location:
  • Eastern Hemisphere
    Eastern Hemisphere
    The Eastern Hemisphere, also Eastern hemisphere or eastern hemisphere, is a geographical term for the half of the Earth that is east of the Prime Meridian and west of 180° longitude. It is also used to refer to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia, vis-à-vis the Western Hemisphere, which includes...
    
     and Southern Hemisphere
    Southern Hemisphere
    The Southern Hemisphere is the part of Earth that lies south of the equator. The word hemisphere literally means 'half ball' or "half sphere"...
    
    
  • Africa
    Africa
    Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
    
    
    • East Africa
      East Africa
      East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
      
      
    • Southern Africa
      Southern Africa
      Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. Within the region are numerous territories, including the Republic of South Africa ; nowadays, the simpler term South Africa is generally reserved for the country in English.-UN...
      
      
  • Time zone
    Time zone
    A time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. In order for the same clock time to always correspond to the same portion of the day as the Earth rotates , different places on the Earth need to have different clock times...
    
    : Central Africa Time
    Central Africa Time
    Central Africa Time, or CAT, is a time zone used in central and southern Africa. The zone is two hours ahead of UTC , which is the same as the adjacent South Africa Standard Time and also the same as Eastern European Time....
    
     (UTC+02)
  • Extreme points of Zimbabwe
    • High: Mount Nyangani
      Mount Nyangani
      Mount Nyangani is the highest mountain in Zimbabwe at 2,592 m . The mountain is located within Nyanga National Park in Nyanga District, is about south east of Harare. The summit lies atop a small outcrop of rock around 40m above the surrounding area...
      
       2592 m (8,504 ft)
    • Low: Confluence
      Confluence
      Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water.Confluence may also refer to:* Confluence , a property of term rewriting systems...
      
       of Runde River and Save River
      Save River (Africa)
      The Save is a 400km river of southeastern Africa, flowing through Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The river has its source in Zimbabwe, some 80 km south of Harare, then flows south and then east, from the Zimbabwean highveld to its confluence with the Odzi River...
      
       162 m (531 ft)
  • Land boundaries: 3,066 km

 Mozambique 1,231 km

 Botswana 813 km

 Zambia 797 km

 South Africa 225 km

• Coastline: none
• Place names in Zimbabwe
  Place names in Zimbabwe
  Following independence in 1980, Zimbabwe began renaming cities, towns and streets, in an attempt to eradicate symbols of British colonialism and white minority rule, starting in 1982, on the second anniversary of independence...
  
  
• Population: 11,392,000 people (2009 estimate) - 73rd most populous country
• Area: 390580 km² (150,803.8 sq mi) - 60th largest country
• Atlas of Zimbabwe

Environment of Zimbabwe

• Climate of Zimbabwe
• Environmental issues in Zimbabwe
• Ecoregions in Zimbabwe
• Renewable energy in Zimbabwe
• Geology of Zimbabwe
• Protected areas of Zimbabwe
  • Biosphere reserves in Zimbabwe
  • National parks of Zimbabwe
  • Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Estate
• Wildlife of Zimbabwe
  Wildlife of Zimbabwe
  The wildlife of Zimbabwe is mostly located in remote or rugged terrain in the national parks and private wildlife ranches; it is spread over the landscapes of miombo woodlands and thorny acacia or kopje...
  
  
  • Flora of Zimbabwe
  • Fauna of Zimbabwe
    • Birds of Zimbabwe
    • Mammals of Zimbabwe

Natural geographic features of Zimbabwe

• Glaciers in Zimbabwe: none
• Islands of Zimbabwe
• Lakes of Zimbabwe
• Mountains of Zimbabwe
  • Volcanoes in Zimbabwe: no active volcanoes
• Rivers of Zimbabwe
  • Waterfalls of Zimbabwe
• Valleys of Zimbabwe
• World Heritage Sites in Zimbabwe

Administrative divisions of Zimbabwe

• Provinces of Zimbabwe
  Provinces of Zimbabwe
  |Zimbabwe is divided into 8 provinces and 2 cities with provincial status:-See also:*Districts of Zimbabwe*Municipalities of Zimbabwe*List of provincial governors of Zimbabwe*ISO 3166-2:ZW-External links:*...
  
  
  • Districts of Zimbabwe
    Districts of Zimbabwe
    The provinces of Zimbabwe are divided into 59 districts and 1,200 municipalities. The districts are listed below, by province:-Bulawayo :* Bulawayo-Harare :* Harare-Manicaland Province:* Buhera* Chimanimani* Chipinge* Makoni* Mutare...
    
    
    • Municipalities of Zimbabwe
      Municipalities of Zimbabwe
      |The Districts of Zimbabwe are divided into 1,200 municipal wards. The wards are listed below, by district:-Beitbridge:*Beitbridge*Chipise*Dendele*Dite Ii*Machuchuta*Maramani*Masera*Mtetengwe I*Mtetengwe Ii*Mtetengwe Iii*Siyoka I*Siyoka Ii...
      
      

Provinces of Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

is divided into 8 province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

s and 2 cities with provincial status:

1. Bulawayo
   Bulawayo
   Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...
   
    (city)
2. Harare
   Harare
   Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...
   
    (city)
3. Manicaland
   Manicaland
   Manicaland is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of and a population of approximately 1.6 million . Mutare is the capital of the province. -Background:...
   
   
4. Mashonaland Central
   Mashonaland Central
   Mashonaland Central is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 28,347 km² and a population of approximately 998,265 , representing about 8.5% of the total Zimbabwe population.- Background :Bindura is the capital of the province...
   
   
5. Mashonaland East
   Mashonaland East
   Mashonaland East is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 32,230 km² and a population of approximately 1.1 million . Marondera is the capital of the province.-Districts:Mashonaland East is divided into eight districts:* Chikomba* Goromonzi...
   
   
6. Mashonaland West
   Mashonaland West
   Mashonaland West is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 57,441 km² and a population of approximately 1.2 million . Chinhoyi is the capital of the province.Mashonaland West is divided into 6 districts:* Chegutu* Hurungwe* Kadoma* Kariba...
   
   
7. Masvingo
8. Matabeleland North
   Matabeleland North
   Matabeleland North is a province in western Zimbabwe. It borders the provinces of Midlands and Mashonaland West to the east and northeast respectively, and the province of Matabeleland South and the city of Bulawayo to the south. Its northern border is defined by the Zambezi river, while its...
   
   
9. Matabeleland South
   Matabeleland South
   Matabeleland South is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 54,172 km² and a population of approximately 650,000 . Gwanda is the capital of the province.-Geography:...
   
   
10. Midlands

Districts of Zimbabwe

The Provinces of Zimbabwe

Provinces of Zimbabwe

|Zimbabwe is divided into 8 provinces and 2 cities with provincial status:-See also:*Districts of Zimbabwe*Municipalities of Zimbabwe*List of provincial governors of Zimbabwe*ISO 3166-2:ZW-External links:*...

 are divided into 59 districts and 1,200 municipalities. The districts are listed below, by province:
Bulawayo (city)

Bulawayo

Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...

• Bulawayo
  Bulawayo
  Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...
  
  

Harare (city)

Harare

Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

• Harare
  Harare
  Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...
  
  

Manicaland Province

Manicaland

Manicaland is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of and a population of approximately 1.6 million . Mutare is the capital of the province. -Background:...

• Buhera
  Buhera
  Buhera is a district in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe about 82 km south east of Chivhu. It serves as the administrative and commercial centre for the Sabi communal lands....
  
  
• Chimanimani
• Chipinge
  Chipinge
  Chipinge is a town in southeastern Zimbabwe in the province of Manicaland near the Mozambique border. The town lies in a valley in the southern Eastern Highlands. One of Zimbabwe's most famous landmarks, the Birchenough Bridge is located on the Sabi River 62 km from Chipinge...
  
  
• Makoni
• Mutare
  Mutare
  Mutare is the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe, with a population of around 170,000. It is the capital of Manicaland province.-History:...
  
  
• Mutasa
  Mutasa (District)
  Mutasa District is one of seven districts in the Manicaland province of Zimbabwe. Mutasa district is located 30 km from Mutare and stretches up to the Honde Valley which is about 100 km northeast of Mutare along a tarred road which branches off the Nyanga road....
  
  
• Nyanga
  Nyanga District
  Nyanga District is located in Manicaland Province of Zimbabwe.The center is Nyanga village....
  
  

Mashonaland Central Province

Mashonaland Central

Mashonaland Central is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 28,347 km² and a population of approximately 998,265 , representing about 8.5% of the total Zimbabwe population.- Background :Bindura is the capital of the province...

• Bindura
  Bindura
  Bindura is a town in the province of Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe. It is located in the Mazowe Valley about 88 km north-east of Harare. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 18,243. This rose to 21,167 in the 1992 census. It is the administrative capital of the...
  
  
• Guruve
  Guruve
  -Districts and areas:*Roundhouse*Delaware Mine*Natasha Valley...
  
  
• Mazowe
  Mazowe
  Mazowe is a village in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe....
  
  
• Mukumbura
  Mukumbura
  Mukumbura is a village in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe.Mukumbura was immortalized in the song, It's a Long Way to Mukumbura, by Mike Westcott and Leprechaun. The 1977 song was set to the music of "It's a long way to Tipperary". It rose to #2 on the Rhodesian hit music charts...
  
  
• Muzarabani
  Muzarabani
  Muzarabani is a district, which is relatively flat and situated along the Mocambique-Zimbabwe border in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe....
  
  
• Rushinga
• Shamva
  Shamva
  Shamva is a village in the province of Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe. It is located in the Mazowe valley about 90 km north-east of Harare. It is an area with fertile soils hence there is high farming activity.According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 4,617...
  
  

Mashonaland East Province

Mashonaland East

Mashonaland East is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 32,230 km² and a population of approximately 1.1 million . Marondera is the capital of the province.-Districts:Mashonaland East is divided into eight districts:* Chikomba* Goromonzi...

• Chikomba
  Chikomba
  Chikomba is a district of Zimbabwe. Chikomba has a high number of land mines in its areas. Chikomba has applied for elevation from district to town status...
  
  
• Goromonzi
  Goromonzi
  Goromonzi is a rural community in Zimbabwe, southeast of the country's capital city of Harare. It covers an area of and has a population of 178,000. The people who live in the region are principally from the Shona tribe. The village serves as a trading centre for commercial, communal and...
  
  
• Hwedza
• Marondera
  Marondera
  Marondera is a town in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about 72 km east of Harare; population 39,384...
  
  
• Mudzi
• Murehwa
• Mutoko
  Mutoko
  Mutoko is a small town in Mashonaland East province, Zimbabwe. It was established as an administrative station in 1911. It lies 143 km from Harare. It is named after the local Chief Mutoko....
  
  
• Seke
• Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe

Mashonaland West Province

Mashonaland West

Mashonaland West is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 57,441 km² and a population of approximately 1.2 million . Chinhoyi is the capital of the province.Mashonaland West is divided into 6 districts:* Chegutu* Hurungwe* Kadoma* Kariba...

• Chegutu
  Chegutu
  Chegutu is a town in the Mashonaland West province, northern Zimbabwe and is 110km southwest of Harare on the main Harare-Bulawayo road . According to the 1992 Population Census, the town had a population of 30,191...
  
  
• Hurungwe
• Kadoma
• Kariba
• Makonde
  Makonde (District)
  Makonde is a district of Zimbabwe. The district capital is Chinhoyi city.It is in the middle of a major agricultural region being surrounded by both small scale and large scale farms producing cereals, vegetables and cotton....
  
  
• Zvimba

Masvingo Province

• Bikita
  Bikita
  Bikita is a district in the Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe. It is located about 80 km east of Masvingo. Its name probably is derived from the Shona word Dikita which means antbear, which describes the shape of a nearby hill. The district was previously known as Denga which means up in the clouds and...
  
  
• Chiredzi
  Chiredzi
  Chiredzi is a small town in Masvingo province in south-east Zimbabwe. Together with its sister town of Triangle, it is the major center of sugar production in the country.-Background:...
  
  
• Chivi
• Gutu
  Guţu
  Guţu is a Romanian surname:* Ana Guţu* Ion Guţu* Lidia Guţu* Octavian Guţu...
  
  
• Masvingo
  Masvingo
  Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.- History :...
  
  
• Mwenezi
• Zaka

Matabeleland North Province

Matabeleland North

Matabeleland North is a province in western Zimbabwe. It borders the provinces of Midlands and Mashonaland West to the east and northeast respectively, and the province of Matabeleland South and the city of Bulawayo to the south. Its northern border is defined by the Zambezi river, while its...

• Binga
• Bubi
• Hwange
  Hwange
  Hwange is a town in western Zimbabwe, in the province of Matabeleland North. It is named after the chieftain of Zwange, who is now called Chief Hwange. The town was known as Wankie until 1982. According to the 1992 Population Census, the town had a population of 42,581...
  
  
• Lupane
• Nkayi
• Tsholotsho
  Tsholotsho
  - Introduction :Tsholotsho is a business center in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 65km north-west of Nyamandhlovu,and 98km north-west of Bulawayo as the bird flies, in the Tjolotjo communal land...
  
  
• Umguza
  Umguza
  Umguza is a district in Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe....
  
  

Matabeleland South Province

Matabeleland South

Matabeleland South is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 54,172 km² and a population of approximately 650,000 . Gwanda is the capital of the province.-Geography:...

• Beitbridge
  Beitbridge
  Beitbridge or Mzingwane is a border town in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. The name also refers to the border post and bridge spanning the Limpopo River, which forms the political border between South Africa and Zimbabwe.-Background:...
  
  
• Bulilimamangwe
• Gwanda
  Gwanda
  Gwanda is the capital of the province of Matabeleland South in Zimbabwe. It is located on the Bulawayo-Beitbridge road and railway. Gwanda was founded in 1900. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 4,874...
  
  
• Insiza
  Insiza
  Insiza is a constituency of Zimbabwe in the province of Matabeleland South. Insiza is a rural area.More than 1000 votes have been unaccounted for at the 2005 general election. It has been won by the Zanu PF candidate at the 2005 general election. Insiza has been held by the Zanu PF since the 2002...
  
  
• Matobo
• Umzingwane

Midlands Province

• Chirumhanzu
• Gokwe North
  Gokwe District
  Gokwe South District is the southern of two administrative districts in the Gokwe region of the Midlands province of Zimbabwe. Its administrative seat is Gokwe Centre.-References:...
  
  
• Gokwe South
  Gokwe District
  Gokwe South District is the southern of two administrative districts in the Gokwe region of the Midlands province of Zimbabwe. Its administrative seat is Gokwe Centre.-References:...
  
  
• Gweru
  Gweru
  Gweru is a city near the centre of Zimbabwe at . It has a population of about 146,073 , making it the third largest city in the nation. Gweru is the capital of Midlands Province. Gweru was founded in 1894 by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson. The first bank opened in Gweru in 1896, and the stock exchange...
  
  
• Kwekwe
  Kwekwe
  Kwekwe or Kwe Kwe , formerly spelt Que Que, is a city in central Zimbabwe. It is located in the centre of the country —roughly equidistant from Harare to the northeast and Bulawayo to the southwest. Its population stood at 47,607 in 1982, 75,425 in 1992 and the preliminary result of the 2002...
  
  
• Mberengwa
• Shurugwi
  Shurugwi
  Shurugwi, formerly Selukwe, a town and administrative centre in Midlands Province, southern Zimbabwe, located about 350 km south of Harare; population 16,138...
  
  
• Zvishavane

Municipalities of Zimbabwe

• Capital of Zimbabwe: Harare
• Cities of Zimbabwe
  • Largest cities:
    • Harare
      Harare
      Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...
      
      
    • Bulawayo
      Bulawayo
      Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...
      
      
    • Chitungwiza
      Chitungwiza
      Chitungwiza — known colloquially as Chi Town — is a high-density dormitory town in Zimbabwe. The town is approximately 30 kilometres south of the capital, Harare. It was formed in 1978 from three townships: Seke, Zengeza, and St Marys.- Background :...
      
      
    • Mutare
      Mutare
      Mutare is the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe, with a population of around 170,000. It is the capital of Manicaland province.-History:...
      
      
    • Gweru
      Gweru
      Gweru is a city near the centre of Zimbabwe at . It has a population of about 146,073 , making it the third largest city in the nation. Gweru is the capital of Midlands Province. Gweru was founded in 1894 by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson. The first bank opened in Gweru in 1896, and the stock exchange...
      
      
    • Kwekwe
      Kwekwe
      Kwekwe or Kwe Kwe , formerly spelt Que Que, is a city in central Zimbabwe. It is located in the centre of the country —roughly equidistant from Harare to the northeast and Bulawayo to the southwest. Its population stood at 47,607 in 1982, 75,425 in 1992 and the preliminary result of the 2002...
      
      
    • Kadoma
      Kadoma, Zimbabwe
      Kadoma is a city in Zimbabwe in the Mashonaland West province, 140 km south-west of Harare on the main road to Bulawayo. It was known as Gatooma until 1982....
      
      
    • Masvingo
      Masvingo
      Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.- History :...
      
      
    • Chinhoyi
      Chinhoyi
      Chinhoyi is a large provincial town and is the capital of Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. Sinoia was established in 1906 as a group settlement scheme by a wealthy Italian called Lieutenant Margherito Guidotti who encouraged 10 Italian families to settle there.- Overview :Chinhoyi is located...
      
      
    • Marondera
      Marondera
      Marondera is a town in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about 72 km east of Harare; population 39,384...
      
      

Government and politics of Zimbabwe

Main article: Government of Zimbabwe and Politics of Zimbabwe

Politics of Zimbabwe

Politics of Zimbabwe takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential republic, whereby the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government...

• Form of government
  Form of government
  A form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized. Synonyms include "regime type" and "system of government".-Empirical and conceptual problems:...
  
  : semi-presidential
  Semi-presidential system
  The semi-presidential system is a system of government in which a president and a prime minister are both active participants in the day-to-day administration of the state...
  
   republic
  Republic
  A republic is a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, have supreme control over the government and where offices of state are elected or chosen by elected people. In modern times, a common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of...
  
  
• Capital of Zimbabwe: Harare
• Politics of Rhodesia
  Politics of Rhodesia
  Rhodesia was a democratic nation in the sense that it had the Westminster parliamentary system with multiple political parties contesting the seats in parliament, but as the voting was dominated by the White settler minority and that the black Africans only had a minority level of representation at...
  
  
• Elections in Zimbabwe
  Elections in Zimbabwe
  The Zimbabwe government consists of an elected head of state, the president, and a legislature. The presidential term lasts for 6 years. Parliament is bicameral, consisting of the House of Assembly and Senate. The House of assembly has 210 members 200 elected for five-year terms by single-member...
  
  
  • Zimbabwean presidential elections
    • 1990
      Zimbabwean presidential election, 1990
      A presidential election was held in Zimbabwe on 23 March 1990 alongside simultaneous parliamentary elections. It was the first time that the president had been popularly elected, following the creation of an executive presidency in 1987. The election was contested by the incumbent Robert Mugabe,...
      
      1996
      Zimbabwean presidential election, 1996
      A presidential election was held in Zimbabwe on 16 and 17 March 1996. The election was contested by the incumbent Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Rhodesia-era Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa, and ZANU-Ndonga leader Ndabaningi Sithole...
      
      2002
      Zimbabwean presidential election, 2002
      A presidential election was held in Zimbabwe between 9 and 11 March 2002. The election was contested by the incumbent Robert Mugabe, Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai, ZANU-Ndonga leader Wilson Kumbula, Shakespeare Maya of the National Alliance for Good Governance and...
      
      2008
      Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008
      The Republic of Zimbabwe held a presidential election along with a parliamentary election on 29 March 2008. The three major candidates were incumbent President Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front , Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change , and...
      
      
  • Zimbabwean and Rhodesian parliamentary elections
    • 1899 1902 1905 1908 1911 1914 1920 1924 1928 1933 1934 1939 1946 1948
      Southern Rhodesian general election, 1948
      The Southern Rhodesia general election of September 15, 1948 saw the Prime Minister Godfrey Huggins regain the overall majority he had lost at the previous election...
      
      1954
      Southern Rhodesian general election, 1954
      General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 27 January 1954. The result was a victory for the United Rhodesia Party, which won 26 of the 30 seats.-Results:...
      
      1958
      Southern Rhodesian general election, 1958
      General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 5 June 1958. The result was a victory for the ruling United Federal Party, which won 17 seats. The revived United Rhodesia Party under the leadership of former Primer Minister Sir Garfield Todd failed to win a single seat.-Results:...
      
      1962 1965
      Rhodesian general election, 1965
      General elections were held in Rhodesia on 7 May 1965. The election was held using two rolls, an "A" roll, which was largely white and elected 50 seats, and a "B" roll, which was largely black and elected 15 seats. Only 10,544 voters were registered on the B roll...
      
      1970
      Rhodesian general election, 1970
      The Rhodesian general election of April 10, 1970 was the first election which took place under the revised, republican, constitution of Rhodesia...
      
      1974 1977 1979
      Zimbabwe Rhodesia general election, 1979
      The Zimbabwe Rhodesia general election of April 1979 was held under the internal settlement negotiated by the Rhodesian Front government of Ian Smith intended to provide a peaceful transition to majority rule on terms not harmful to Rhodesians of European descent...
      
       Zimbabwe1980
      Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 1980
      General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia in February 1980 in order to elect a government which would govern the country after it was granted independence as Zimbabwe, in accordance with the conclusions of the Lancaster House Agreement...
      
      1985 1990
      Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 1990
      Parliamentary elections were held in Zimbabwe on 23 March 1990, alongside simultaneous presidential elections. They were the first elections to be contested under the amended constitution of 1987, which established an executive presidency and abolished the Senate. They were also the first ever...
      
      1995
      Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 1995
      The Zimbabwe Parliamentary election of 1995 was held on April 8-9 to elect members to the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe. The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front won an overwhelming majority of the seats . There were 120 constituencies but 55 members were returned...
      
      2000 2005 2008
      Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008
      A parliamentary election was held in Zimbabwe on March 29, 2008 to elect members to both the House of Assembly and the Senate of the Zimbabwean parliament...
      
      
• Land reform in Zimbabwe
  Land reform in Zimbabwe
  Land reform in Zimbabwe officially began in 1979 with the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement, an effort to more equitably distribute land between the historically disenfranchised blacks and the minority-whites who ruled Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1979...
  
  
• Liberalism in Zimbabwe
  Liberalism in Zimbabwe
  This article gives an overview of liberal parties in Zimbabwe. It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒ means a reference to another party in that scheme...
  
  
• Political parties in Zimbabwe
• Political scandals of Zimbabwe
  • Operation Murambatsvina
    Operation Murambatsvina
    Operation Murambatsvina , also officially known as Operation Restore Order, is a large-scale Zimbabwean government campaign to forcibly clear slum areas across the country...
    
    
• Taxation in Zimbabwe
  • Zimbabwe Revenue Authority

Executive branch of the government of Zimbabwe

• Head of state
  Head of State
  A head of state is the individual that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchy, republic, federation, commonwealth or other kind of state. His or her role generally includes legitimizing the state and exercising the political powers, functions, and duties granted to the head of...
  
  : President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe
  Robert Mugabe
  Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...
  
  
  • Previous presidents of Zimbabwe
• Head of government
  Head of government
  Head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet. In a parliamentary system, the head of government is often styled prime minister, chief minister, premier, etc...
  
  : Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
  Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
  The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe is the head of government in Zimbabwe. From 1980 to 1987, Robert Mugabe was the first person to hold the position following independence from the United Kingdom. He took office when Rhodesia became the Republic of Zimbabwe on 18 April 1980...
  
  , Morgan Tsvangirai
  Morgan Tsvangirai
  Morgan Richard Tsvangirai is the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He is the President of the Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai and a key figure in the opposition to President Robert Mugabe. Tsvangirai was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe on 11 February 2009...
  
  
• Cabinet of Zimbabwe
  Cabinet of Zimbabwe
  The Cabinet of Zimbabwe is an executive body of appointed government ministers. Until 1987, the Cabinet was chaired by the Prime Minister; it is now headed by the President.-Composition:...
  
  

Legislative branch of the government of Zimbabwe

• Parliament of Zimbabwe
  Parliament of Zimbabwe
  The Parliament of Zimbabwe consists of two chambers:*The Senate *The House of Assembly...
  
   (bicameral)
  • Upper house
    Upper house
    An upper house, often called a senate, is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house; a legislature composed of only one house is described as unicameral.- Possible specific characteristics :...
    
    : Senate of Zimbabwe
    Senate of Zimbabwe
    The Senate of Zimbabwe is the upper chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament. It existed from 1980 to 1989, and was re-introduced in November 2005....
    
    
  • Lower house
    Lower house
    A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house.Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide the lower house has come to wield more power...
    
    : House of Assembly of Zimbabwe
    House of Assembly of Zimbabwe
    The House of Assembly of Zimbabwe is the lower chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament. It was the unicameral legislative body from 1989 until late November 2005, when the Senate was re-introduced....
    
    

Judicial branch of the government of Zimbabwe

• Supreme Court of Zimbabwe
  Supreme Court of Zimbabwe
  The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe is the highest court of order and the final court of appeal in Zimbabwe.The judiciary is headed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who, like the other justices, is appointed by the President on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission. The court consists of...
  
  

Foreign relations of Zimbabwe

• Diplomatic missions in Zimbabwe
• Diplomatic missions of Zimbabwe
  Diplomatic missions of Zimbabwe
  This is a list of diplomatic missions of Zimbabwe, excluding honorary consulates. Following Ian Smith's Universal Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom in 1965 Rhodesia's diplomatic presence was dramatically rolled back across the world. By the time of the Lancaster House Agreement...
  
  

Relations with specific countries

• Angola–Zimbabwe relations
• Australia–Zimbabwe relations
• Israel – Zimbabwe relations
• Namibia–Zimbabwe relations
• Sino-Zimbabwe relations
  Sino-Zimbabwe relations
  China–Zimbabwe relations date back to January 1979, during the Rhodesian Bush War. The Soviet Union supported Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union, and supplied them with arms; Robert Mugabe's attempts to gain Soviet support for his Zimbabwe African National Union were rebuffed, leading...
  
  
• United States-Zimbabwe relations
  United States-Zimbabwe relations
  United States – Zimbabwe relations are bilateral relations between Zimbabwe and the United States.- History :After the Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Rhodesia in November 1965, the United States recalled its Consul General from Salisbury , closed the U.S. Information Service library,...
  
  
  • Detention of US and UK diplomats in Zimbabwe
    Detention of US and UK diplomats in Zimbabwe
    On June 5, 2008, diplomatic staff from both the United States and the United Kingdom were attacked and abducted by Zimbabwean security forces. Five Americans and four British diplomats were among the victims. Additional diplomats from the European Union and Japan, the Netherlands and Tanzania were...
    
    
  • Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001
    Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001
    The Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act is an act passed by the United States Congress sanctioned to provide for a transition to democracy and to promote economic recovery in Zimbabwe....
    
    

International organization membership

The Republic of Zimbabwe is a member of:

• African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
• African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
• African Union
  African Union
  The African Union is a union consisting of 54 African states. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established on 9 July 2002, the AU was formed as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity...
  
   (AU)
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
  Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
  The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, is a free trade area with nineteen member states stretching from Libya to Zimbabwe. COMESA formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area which had existed since 1981...
  
   (COMESA)
• Food and Agriculture Organization
  Food and Agriculture Organization
  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and...
  
   (FAO)
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was negotiated during the UN Conference on Trade and Employment and was the outcome of the failure of negotiating governments to create the International Trade Organization . GATT was signed in 1947 and lasted until 1993, when it was replaced by the World...
  
   (GATT)
• Group of 15
  Group of 15
  The Group of 15 was established at the Ninth Non-Aligned Movement Summit Meeting in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in September 1989.This informal forum was set up to foster cooperation and provide input for other international groups, such as the World Trade Organization and the Group of Eight...
  
   (G15)
• International Atomic Energy Agency
  International Atomic Energy Agency
  The International Atomic Energy Agency is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organization on 29 July 1957...
  
   (IAEA)
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development is one of five institutions that compose the World Bank Group. The IBRD is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by World War II. Now, its mission has expanded to fight...
  
   (IBRD)
• International Civil Aviation Organization
  International Civil Aviation Organization
  The International Civil Aviation Organization , pronounced , , is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth...
  
   (ICAO)
• International Criminal Court
  International Criminal Court
  The International Criminal Court is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression .It came into being on 1 July 2002—the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the...
  
   (ICCt) (signatory)
• International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
• International Development Association
  International Development Association
  The International Development Association , is the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. It complements the World Bank's other lending arm — the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development — which serves middle-income countries with capital investment and...
  
   (IDA)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is a humanitarian institution that is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement along with the ICRC and 186 distinct National Societies...
  
   (IFRCS)
• International Finance Corporation
  International Finance Corporation
  The International Finance Corporation promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries.IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States....
  
   (IFC)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development
  International Fund for Agricultural Development
  The International Fund for Agricultural Development , a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. IFAD is dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in developing countries...
  
   (IFAD)
• International Labour Organization
  International Labour Organization
  The International Labour Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues pertaining to international labour standards. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Its secretariat — the people who are employed by it throughout the world — is known as the...
  
   (ILO)
• International Maritime Organization
  International Maritime Organization
  The International Maritime Organization , formerly known as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization , was established in Geneva in 1948, and came into force ten years later, meeting for the first time in 1959...
  
   (IMO)
• International Monetary Fund
  International Monetary Fund
  The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
  
   (IMF)
• International Olympic Committee
  International Olympic Committee
  The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...
  
   (IOC)
• International Organization for Migration
  International Organization for Migration
  The International Organization for Migration is an intergovernmental organization. It was initially established in 1951 as the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration to help resettle people displaced by World War II....
  
   (IOM)
• International Organization for Standardization
  International Organization for Standardization
  The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on February 23, 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial...
  
   (ISO)
• International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
  International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
  The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human...
  
   (ICRM)
• International Telecommunication Union
  International Telecommunication Union
  The International Telecommunication Union is the specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for information and communication technologies...
  
   (ITU)

• International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
  International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
  The International Telecommunications Satellite Organization is an intergovernmental organisation charged with overseeing the public service obligations of Intelsat.-External links:*...
  
   (ITSO)
• International Trade Union Confederation
  International Trade Union Confederation
  The International Trade Union Confederation is the world's largest trade union federation. It was formed on November 1, 2006 out of the merger of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Confederation of Labour...
  
   (ITUC)
• Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
  Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
  The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency is a member organization of the World Bank Group that offers political risk insurance. It was established to promote foreign direct investment into developing countries. MIGA was founded in 1988 with a capital base of $1 billion and is headquartered in...
  
   (MIGA)
• Nonaligned Movement (NAM)
• Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
• Permanent Court of Arbitration
  Permanent Court of Arbitration
  The Permanent Court of Arbitration , is an international organization based in The Hague in the Netherlands.-History:The court was established in 1899 as one of the acts of the first Hague Peace Conference, which makes it the oldest institution for international dispute resolution.The creation of...
  
   (PCA)
• Southern African Development Community
  Southern African Development Community
  The Southern African Development Community is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. Its goal is to further socio-economic cooperation and integration as well as political and security cooperation among 15 southern African states...
  
   (SADC)
• United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
   (UN)
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body. It is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly dealing with trade, investment, and development issues....
  
   (UNCTAD)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization
  United Nations Industrial Development Organization
  The United Nations Industrial Development Organization , French/Spanish acronym ONUDI, is a specialized agency in the United Nations system, headquartered in Vienna, Austria...
  
   (UNIDO)
• United Nations Mission in Liberia
  United Nations Mission in Liberia
  The United Nations Mission in Liberia is a peace-keeping force established in September 2003 to monitor a ceasefire agreement in Liberia following the resignation of President Charles Taylor and the conclusion of the Second Liberian Civil War....
  
   (UNMIL)
• United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS)
• United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire
  United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire
  The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire is a peacekeeping mission whose objective is "to facilitate the implementation by the Ivorian parties of the peace agreement signed by them in January 2003"...
  
   (UNOCI)
• Universal Postal Union
  Universal Postal Union
  The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, in addition to the worldwide postal system. The UPU contains four bodies consisting of the Congress, the Council of Administration , the Postal Operations Council and the...
  
   (UPU)
• World Confederation of Labour
  World Confederation of Labour
  The World Confederation of Labour was an international labour organization founded in 1920 and based in Europe. Totalitarian governments of the 1930s repressed the federation and imprisoned many of its leaders, limiting operations until the end of World War II...
  
   (WCL)
• World Customs Organization
  World Customs Organization
  The World Customs Organization is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. With its worldwide membership, the WCO is recognized as the voice of the global customs community...
  
   (WCO)
• World Federation of Trade Unions
  World Federation of Trade Unions
  The World Federation of Trade Unions was established in 1945 to replace the International Federation of Trade Unions. Its mission was to bring together trade unions across the world in a single international organization, much like the United Nations...
  
   (WFTU)
• World Health Organization
  World Health Organization
  The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health...
  
   (WHO)
• World Intellectual Property Organization
  World Intellectual Property Organization
  The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 17 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world"....
  
   (WIPO)
• World Meteorological Organization
  World Meteorological Organization
  The World Meteorological Organization is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 189 Member States and Territories. It originated from the International Meteorological Organization , which was founded in 1873...
  
   (WMO)
• World Tourism Organization
  World Tourism Organization
  The World Tourism Organization , based in Madrid, Spain, is a United Nations agency dealing with questions relating to tourism. It compiles the World Tourism rankings. The World Tourism Organization is a significant global body, concerned with the collection and collation of statistical information...
  
   (UNWTO)
• World Trade Organization
  World Trade Organization
  The World Trade Organization is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which commenced in 1948...
  
   (WTO)

Law and order in Zimbabwe

• Capital punishment in Zimbabwe
• Constitution of Zimbabwe
  Constitution of Zimbabwe
  The Constitution of Zimbabwe is officially the supreme law of Zimbabwe. Practically, the 2008 power-sharing deal provides the structure for much of the government. The current constitution is a result of the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement and is sometimes called the Lancaster Constitution...
  
  
• Crime in Zimbabwe
  Crime in Zimbabwe
  Crime is a serious problem in Zimbabwe, and is driven by the country's deteriorating economy.-Non-political crime:Foreigners are perceived to be wealthy and are frequently targeted by criminals who operate in the vicinity of hotels, restaurants, and shopping areas of the major cities and tourist...
  
  
  • Human trafficking in Zimbabwe
    Human trafficking in Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation...
    
    
• Human rights in Zimbabwe
  Human rights in Zimbabwe
  There are widespread reports of systematic and escalating violations of human rights in Zimbabwe under the Mugabe administration and his party, ZANU-PF....
  
  
  • LGBT rights in Zimbabwe
  • Freedom of religion in Zimbabwe
• Law enforcement in Zimbabwe
  • Zimbabwe Republic Police
    Zimbabwe Republic Police
    The Zimbabwe Republic Police is the national police force of Zimbabwe, known until July 1980 as the British South Africa Police. -Structure:...
    
    

Military of Zimbabwe

• Command
  • Commander-in-chief
    Commander-in-Chief
    A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...
    
    :,
    • Ministry of Defence of Zimbabwe
      Ministry of Defence (Zimbabwe)
      The Ministry of Defence is a Zimbabwe Government ministry, responsible for defence and national defence policy.- Organization :The Ministry is located in Harare.It oversees:* Zimbabwe Defence Forces** Zimbabwe National Army** Air Force of Zimbabwe...
      
      
      • Defence Minister of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa
        Emmerson Mnangagwa
        Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is a Zimbabwean politician who has been Minister of Defense since February 2009. He was previously Minister of State Security from 1982 to 1988, then Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs until 2000; he was Speaker of Parliament from July 2000 to 2005 and...
        
        
      • Joint Operations Command
        Joint Operations Command
        The Joint Operations Command is the supreme organ for the coordination of state security in Zimbabwe. It was established by the Rhodesian government and co-ordinated the counter-insurgency war in the Rhodesian Bush War as well as military incursions into neighbouring countries such as Mozambique...
        
        
      • Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, General
        General
        A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
        
         Constantine Chiwenga
        Constantine Chiwenga
        - Personal life :He was born in 1956 in Hwedza district of Mashonaland East Province. General Chiwenga was educated up to Form 4 at St Mary's Mission in Hwedza, together with Air Marshal Perence Shiri and Brigadier General Shungu, Commander Mechanised Brigade....
        
        
      • Commander of the Zimbabwe National Army, Lieutenant General
        Lieutenant General
        Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
        
         Philip Sibanda
      • Commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe, Air Marshal
        Air Marshal
        Air marshal is a three-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...
        
         Perence Shiri
        Perence Shiri
        Air Marshal Perence Shiri is the current commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe and a member of the Joint Operations Command which exerts day-by-day control over Zimbabwe's government.Perence Shiri is a cousin of President Robert Mugabe...
        
        
• Forces
  • Zimbabwe National Army
    Zimbabwe National Army
    The Zimbabwe National Army is the land warfare branch of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. The ZNA currently has an active duty strength of 30,000.-History:...
    
    
  • Navy
    Navy
    A navy is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions...
    
     of Zimbabwe: None
  • Air Force of Zimbabwe
    Air Force of Zimbabwe
    The Air Force of Zimbabwe is the air force of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. It was known as the Rhodesian Air Force until 1980. The Air Force of Zimbabwe saw service in the Mozambican Civil War in 1985 and the Second Congo War of 1998–2001....
    
    
  • Special forces of Zimbabwe
    Special Forces of Zimbabwe
    Special Forces of Zimbabwe describes the units of the Zimbabwe National Army that operate as special forces. These forces have been deployed in several African conflicts, including the Mozambique Civil War and the Second Congo War....
    
    
• Military history of Zimbabwe
  Military history of Zimbabwe
  The military history of Zimbabwe chronicles a vast time period and complex events from the dawn of history until the present time. It covers invasions of native peoples of Africa , colonization by Europeans , and civil wars.-San and invasion by ironworking cultures:Stone Age evidence indicates...
  
  
• Military ranks of Zimbabwe

History of Zimbabwe

Main article: History of Zimbabwe

History of Zimbabwe

At the end of the Bush War there was a transition to majority rule in 1980. The United Kingdom ceremonially granted Zimbabwe independence on April 18, 1980 in accordance with the Lancaster House Agreement...

, Timeline of the history of Zimbabwe, and Current events of Zimbabwe

By period

• Pre-colonial history
  Pre-colonial history of Zimbabwe
  The pre-colonial history of Zimbabwe lasted until the British government granted colonial status to Southern Rhodesia in 1923.-Ancient civilization:...
  
  
  • Mutapa Kingdom (c. 1450–1698)
  • Torwa dynasty
    Torwa dynasty
    The Torwa dynasty was the ruling family of the Butua kingdom that arose from the collapse of Great Zimbabwe in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, founded perhaps by the legendary Dlembeu....
    
     (c. 1450–1683)
  • Rozwi Empire
    Rozwi Empire
    The Rozwi Empire or Lozwi Empire was established on the Zimbabwean Plateau by Changamire Dombo.-History:In 1693, Portuguese militia tried to take control of the gold trade in the interior of sub-saharan Africa by invading the Rozwi empire...
    
     (c. 1684–1834)
  • Matabeleland
    Matabeleland
    Modern day Matabeleland is a region in Zimbabwe divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo and Matabeleland South. These provinces are in the west and south-west of Zimbabwe, between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers. The region is named after its inhabitants, the Ndebele people...
    
     (Kingdom: 1837–1894; Province: 1923–present)
• Early European settlement
  Early history of European settlement in Zimbabwe
  The early history of European settlement in Zimbabwe, range from the arrival of the Portuguese to the establishment of the colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1923.-Portuguese and the Rozwi Empire:...
  
   (16th century; c.1890–1923)
• Colonial history
  Colonial history of Southern Rhodesia
  The territory of 'Southern Rhodesia' was originally referred to as 'South Zambezia' but the name 'Rhodesia' came into use in 1895. The designation 'Southern' was adopted in 1901 and dropped from normal usage in 1964 on the break-up of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and Rhodesia became...
  
   
  
  (1923–1965)
• Rhodesia
  History of Rhodesia
  The history of Rhodesia extends from Prime Minister Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence in 1965 to the transition to majority rule in 1979.-Declaration of independence:...
  
   
  
  (1965–1979)
• Zimbabwe Rhodesia
  Zimbabwe Rhodesia
  Zimbabwe Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, was an unrecognized state that existed from 1 June 1979 to 12 December 1979...
  
   
  
  (1979–1980)
• Zimbabwe
  History of Zimbabwe
  At the end of the Bush War there was a transition to majority rule in 1980. The United Kingdom ceremonially granted Zimbabwe independence on April 18, 1980 in accordance with the Lancaster House Agreement...
  
   
  
  (1980 – present)

Culture of Zimbabwe

• Architecture of Zimbabwe
• Cuisine of Zimbabwe
• Ethnic minorities in Zimbabwe
• Festivals in Zimbabwe
• Humor in Zimbabwe
• Languages of Zimbabwe
  Languages of Zimbabwe
  The three official languages of Zimbabwe are Shona , Ndebele , and English. There are also other indigenous languages of Zimbabwe such as Tonga, Nambya, Kalanga, Sotho, Venda and Xangani. There is an official position, albeit not backed by evidence, that approximately 85% of the population is Shona...
  
  
  • Official language: English
    South African English
    The term South African English is applied to the first-language dialects of English spoken by South Africans, with the L1 English variety spoken by Zimbabweans, Zambians and Namibians, being recognised as offshoots.There is some social and regional variation within South African English...
    
    
  • Indigenous
    Indigenous language
    An indigenous language or autochthonous language is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous peoples but has been reduced to the status of a minority language. This language would be from a linguistically distinct community that has been settled in the area for many generations...
    
     languages:
    • Primary language of Zimbabwe: Shona
      Shona language
      Shona is a Bantu language, native to the Shona people of Zimbabwe and southern Zambia; the term is also used to identify peoples who speak one of the Shona language dialects: Zezuru, Karanga, Manyika, Ndau and Korekore...
      
       (a Bantu language and the native language of the Shona people
      Shona people
      Shona is the name collectively given to two groups of people in the east and southwest of Zimbabwe, north eastern Botswana and southern Mozambique.-Shona Regional Classification:...
      
      )
    • Sindebele (spoken by the Matabele people)
• Media in Zimbabwe
  • Newspapers in Zimbabwe
• National symbols of Zimbabwe
  • Coat of arms of Zimbabwe
    Coat of arms of Zimbabwe
    The coat of arms of Zimbabwe was adopted on September 21, 1981, one year and five months after the national flag was adopted.-Description:The coat of arms depicts two kudus on the left and right, each standing on top of an earthly mound composed of stalks of wheat, a pile of cotton, and a head of...
    
    
  • Flag of Zimbabwe
    Flag of Zimbabwe
    The flag of Zimbabwe was adopted on April 18, 1980. The soapstone bird featured on the flag represents a statuette of a bird found at the ruins of Great Zimbabwe...
    
    
  • National anthem of Zimbabwe
    National Anthem of Zimbabwe
    Blessed be the Land of Zimbabwe is the national anthem of Zimbabwe. It was introduced in March 1994 after a nation-wide competition to replace with a distinctly Zimbabwean song. The winning entry was a song written by Professor Solomon Mutswairo and composed by Fred Changundega...
    
    
• People of Zimbabwe
  • Ndebele people
    Ndebele people (Zimbabwe)
    The Ndebele are a branch of the Zulus who split from King Shaka in the early 1820s under the leadership of Mzilikazi, a former general in Shaka's army....
    
    
  • Whites in Zimbabwe
    Whites in Zimbabwe
    White Zimbabweans are people from the southern African country Zimbabwe who identify themselves as white...
    
    
• Prostitution in Zimbabwe
• Public holidays in Zimbabwe
• Records of Zimbabwe
• Religion in Zimbabwe
  Religion in Zimbabwe
  It is estimated that between 60 and 70 percent of Zimbabweans belong to mainstream Christian denominations such as the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Methodist Churches; however, over the years a variety of indigenous churches and groups have emerged from these mainstream denominations...
  
  
  • Buddhism in Zimbabwe
  • Christianity in Zimbabwe
    Christianity in Zimbabwe
    Christianity in Zimbabwe is one of the major religions practiced in Zimbabwe. The arrival of Christianity dates back to the 14th century by missionaries. Christianity is embraced by the majority of the population. It is estimated at about 70 to 80 percent of Zimbabweans claim to be Christians...
    
    
  • Hinduism in Zimbabwe
    Hinduism in Zimbabwe
    reported that there are small number of Hindus in Zimbabwe.Hindu Primary and Secondary schools are found in the major urban areas such as Harare and Bulawayo.-Hinduism in Zimbabwe:Hindu Society is mainly concentrated in the capital city of Harare....
    
    
  • Islam in Zimbabwe
    Islam in Zimbabwe
    The arrival of Islam in Zimbabwe dates to the fourth Hijri century when Muslims established emirates on the coast of East Africa. During that period Muslim slave merchants extended their business to the interior regions reaching Zimbabwe...
    
    
  • Judaism in Zimbabwe
    Judaism in Zimbabwe
    The history of the Jews in Zimbabwe reaches back over one century. Present-day Zimbabwe was formerly known as Southern Rhodesia and later as Rhodesia.-History:...
    
    
  • Sikhism in Zimbabwe
• World Heritage Sites in Zimbabwe

Art in Zimbabwe

• Art in Zimbabwe
  • National Gallery of Zimbabwe
    National Gallery of Zimbabwe
    The National Gallery of Zimbabwe is a gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe, dedicated to the presentation and conservation of Zimbabwe’s contemporary art and visual heritage...
    
    
• Cinema of Zimbabwe
• Dance in Zimbabwe
  Dance in Zimbabwe
  Dancing in Zimbabwe is an important aspect of the Zimbabwean culture, tradition, spirituality and history. There are many dances that reflect the culture of the people, although the dances may have changed throughout the years. Ethnic diversity is also a key factor in influencing the dances of the...
  
  
• HIFA (Harare International Festival of the Arts)
• Literature of Zimbabwe
• Music of Zimbabwe
  Music of Zimbabwe
  Zimbabwean music includes folk and pop styles, much of it based on the well-known instrument the mbira which is also popular in many other African countries. An annual Zimbabwe Music Festival is held each year in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. People from all over the world attend...
  
  
• Television in Zimbabwe
• Theatre in Zimbabwe

Sports in Zimbabwe

• Football in Zimbabwe
  Football in Zimbabwe
  The sport of football in the country of Zimbabwe is run by the Zimbabwe Football Association. The association administers the national football team, as well as the Premier League....
  
  
  • Zimbabwe national football team
    Zimbabwe national football team
    The Zimbabwe national football team, nicknamed The Warriors, is the national team of Zimbabwe and is controlled by the Zimbabwe Football Association. They were known as the Southern Rhodesia national football team from 1939–1964, then the Rhodesia national football team until 1980, when Rhodesia...
    
    
• Zimbabwe at the Commonwealth Games
  Zimbabwe at the Commonwealth Games
  Zimbabwe has taken part in eleven Commonwealth Games from the second games in 1934: first as Rhodesia, then Southern Rhodesia, then Rhodesia and Nyasaland, then as Zimbabwe....
  
  
• Zimbabwe at the Olympics
  Zimbabwe at the Olympics
  Zimbabwe first participated at the Olympic Games under that name in 1980, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then. Previously, Rhodesia had participated in the Games on three occasions since 1928...
  
  

Economy and infrastructure of Zimbabwe

• Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 156th (one hundred and fifty sixth)
• Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe
  Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe
  Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe began shortly after destruction of productive capacity in Zimbabwe's civil war and confiscation of white-owned farmland. Food output capacity fell 45%, manufacturing output 29% in 2005, 26% in 2006 and 28% in 2007, and unemployment rose to 80%...
  
  
• Communications in Zimbabwe
  Communications in Zimbabwe
  - Telephone system :The phone system was once one of the best in Africa, but now suffers from poor maintenance; more than 100,000 outstanding requests for connection despite an equally large number of installed but unused main lines....
  
  
  • Internet in Zimbabwe
    Internet in Zimbabwe
    -Internet penetration and ISPs:The number of Internet users in Zimbabwe in 2008 was reportedly 1,421,000, or approximately 10.5 percent of Zimbabwe’s population of 13.3 million. This is a stunning increase from the 2000 penetration rate of 0.4 percent...
    
    

* Companies of Zimbabwe

• Currency of Zimbabwe
  Currency
  In economics, currency refers to a generally accepted medium of exchange. These are usually the coins and banknotes of a particular government, which comprise the physical aspects of a nation's money supply...
  
  : Dollar
  Zimbabwean dollar
  The Zimbabwean dollar was the official currency of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 12 April 2009....
  
  , Dollar, Euro
  Euro
  The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...
  
  , Rand
  South African rand
  The rand is the currency of South Africa. It takes its name from the Witwatersrand , the ridge upon which Johannesburg is built and where most of South Africa's gold deposits were found. The rand has the symbol "R" and is subdivided into 100 cents, symbol "c"...
  
  , Pula, Pound Sterling
  Pound sterling
  The pound sterling , commonly called the pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory and Tristan da Cunha. It is subdivided into 100 pence...
  
  Although the Zimbabwean dollar
  Zimbabwean dollar
  The Zimbabwean dollar was the official currency of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 12 April 2009....
  
   it is still the official currency, the United States dollar
  United States dollar
  The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....
  
  , South African rand
  South African rand
  The rand is the currency of South Africa. It takes its name from the Witwatersrand , the ridge upon which Johannesburg is built and where most of South Africa's gold deposits were found. The rand has the symbol "R" and is subdivided into 100 cents, symbol "c"...
  
  , Botswanan pula, Pound sterling
  Pound sterling
  The pound sterling , commonly called the pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory and Tristan da Cunha. It is subdivided into 100 pence...
  
   and Euro
  Euro
  The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...
  
   are mostly used instead as the local currency is practically worthless. The US Dollar has been adopted as the official currency for all government transactions with the new power-sharing regime.
  • ISO 4217
    ISO 4217
    ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
    
    : ZWD/USD/EUR
    Euro
    The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...
    
    /ZAR/BWP/GBP
• Economic history of Zimbabwe
  Economic history of Zimbabwe
  The economic history of Zimbabwe began with the transition to majority rule in 1980 and Britain's ceremonial granting of independence. The new government under Prime Minister Robert Mugabe promoted socialism, partially relying on international aid...
  
  
• Energy in Zimbabwe
  Energy in Zimbabwe
  Energy in Zimbabwe is a serious problem for the country. Mainly, extensive use of firewood leads to deforestation and the electricity production capacity is too low for the current level of consumption.-Fuelwood:...
  
  
  • Energy policy of Zimbabwe
• Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
  Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
  The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, or ZSE, is the official stock exchange of Zimbabwe. It has been open to foreign investment since 1993. The exchange has about a dozen members and over 65 listed securities...
  
  
  • Zimbabwe Industrial Index
    Zimbabwe Industrial Index
    The Zimbabwe Industrial Index is a stock index derived from the values of industrial stocks on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. The Zimbabwe Mining Index is a separate stock index, composed of mining companies.-Index listing:-Zimbabwe Mining Index:...
    
    

• Health care in Zimbabwe
• Transport in Zimbabwe
  Transport in Zimbabwe
  - Railways :The railway operator is National Railways of Zimbabwe.total: 3,077 km , 2,759 km narrow gauge: 3,077 km of gauge , 2,759 km of gauge - Railways :The railway operator is National Railways of Zimbabwe.total: 3,077 km (2002), 2,759 km (1995)narrow gauge:...
  
  
  • Air transport in Zimbabwe
    • Airlines in Zimbabwe
    • Airports in Zimbabwe
  • Rail transport in Zimbabwe
  • Roads in Zimbabwe
• Water supply and sanitation in Zimbabwe

Economic sectors

• Agriculture in Zimbabwe
  Agriculture in Zimbabwe
  Agriculture in Zimbabwe is overseen by the Ministry of Agriculture. In addition to food production, principal products include tobacco, cotton and wool.-Agricultural vocational education:...
  
  
• Banking in Zimbabwe
  • National Bank of Zimbabwe
  • List of banks in Zimbabwe
• Communications in Zimbabwe
  Communications in Zimbabwe
  - Telephone system :The phone system was once one of the best in Africa, but now suffers from poor maintenance; more than 100,000 outstanding requests for connection despite an equally large number of installed but unused main lines....
  
  
• Mining in Zimbabwe
• Oil industry in Zimbabwe
• Tourism in Zimbabwe
  Tourism in Zimbabwe
  Since the Land Reform programme in 2000, tourism in Zimbabwe has steadily declined. After rising during the 1990s, with 1.4 million tourists in 1999, industry figures described a 75% fall in visitors to Zimbabwe in by December 2000, with less than 20% of hotel rooms occupied...
  
  
• Transport in Zimbabwe
  Transport in Zimbabwe
  - Railways :The railway operator is National Railways of Zimbabwe.total: 3,077 km , 2,759 km narrow gauge: 3,077 km of gauge , 2,759 km of gauge - Railways :The railway operator is National Railways of Zimbabwe.total: 3,077 km (2002), 2,759 km (1995)narrow gauge:...
  
  

Education in Zimbabwe

• Universities in Zimbabwe
  • NUST
  • University of Zimbabwe
    University of Zimbabwe
    The University of Zimbabwe in Harare, is the oldest and largest university in Zimbabwe. It was founded through a special relationship with the University of London and it opened its doors to its first students in 1952. The university has ten faculties offering a wide variety of degree programmes...
    
    

See also

• Index of Zimbabwe-related articles
• List of international rankings
• List of Zimbabwe-related topics
• Member state of the United Nations
• Outline of Africa
  Outline of Africa
  The following outline provides an overview of and topical guide to the continent Africa:Africa – world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia.-Geography of Africa:* Atlas of Africa* List of cities in Africa...
  
  
• Outline of geography
  Outline of geography
  The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography:Geography – science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.- Geography is :...
  
  

External links

Government

• Parliament of Zimbabwe — official government site
• Zimbabwe Government Online — official government site and mirror site

News

• Zimbabwe Metro - Zimbabwe News tabloid
• The New Zimbabwe
• The Zimbabwean
• Zimbabwe Online News
• ZW News
• Civic Action Support Group
• AllAfrica.com: Zimbabwe — news headline links
• IFEX: Zimbabwe — press freedom violations
• The Zimbabwe Guardian - Zimbabwe News Online│Zimbabwe News
• IRIN Zimbabwe — humanitarian news and analysis

Directories

• Columbia University Libraries — Zimbabwe directory category of the WWW-VL
• Yahoo!: Zimbabwe

Tourism

• Travel Overview of Zimbabwe
• Facts about Zimbabwe

Other

• ZimConservation - News and opinions about the wildlife and environment of Zimbabwe
• New Zimbabwe
• Isp Internet Services Zimbabwe
• Kubutana The NGO Alliance Network — an online community for Zimbabwean activists
• Zimbabwe Agricultural Welfare Trust (ZAWT)
• Zimbabwe Protest
• Zimbabwe Online
• Center for Global Development — costs and causes of Zimbabwe's crisis
• Zimbabwe Rescue
• Crisis in Zimbabwe
• TheGreatZimbabwe
• BBC, Country Profile, Zimbabwe