Patriotic Front  Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic
Front  The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front
(ZANU-PF) is a Zimbabwean political party that was the ruling
government in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, led by Robert
Mugabe, first as Prime Minister with the party simply known as
ZANU, and then as President from 1988 after taking over ZAPU and
renaming the party ZANU-PF. In the 2008 parliamentary election
the ZANU-PF lost sole control of parliament for the first time
in party history.  Zimbabwe African National Union  The Zimbabwe
African National Union party was founded by Ndabaningi
Sithole,Henry Hamadziripi, Mukudzei Midzi Herbert Chitepo, Edgar
Tekere and Leopold Takawira at the house of former Defence
minister Enos Nkala in Highfield in August 1963. The minority
Ndau followed Sithole into the moderate Zanu (Ndonga) party
(known later as ZANU Mwenje), who renounced violent struggle,
while the majority Shona followed Mugabe's ZANU with a more
militant agenda.  During the 1980