Urban Politics and the Quest for Regime Change (1980–2015)

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the development of politics among urbanised Africans in Zimbabwe from the time of political independence in 1980 to around 2015 when the state machinery increasingly monitored the new thrust of political activism in urban areas. In the 1979 Internal Settlement deal with locally based moderate African leaders such as Jeremiah Chirau, Chief Ndiweni and Ndabaningi Sithole, among others. Bishop Abel Muzorewa became PM as a result of the swing in urban votes in his favour.