New film ยท 37 min

How Did Robert Mugabe Take Over ZANU?

In November 1974, inside Que Que prison in Rhodesia, the leaders of ZANU voted to remove their own president, Ndabaningi Sithole. One man in the room did not vote.

Robert Mugabe in 1995, beside the word TAKEOVER

The film, chapter by chapter

  1. 0:00Que Que Prison, 1974
  2. 1:46The Schoolteacher
  3. 6:01The Split
  4. 9:56The Prisoners
  5. 14:50The Prison Coup
  6. 21:22The Bomb in Lusaka
  7. 27:35The Guerrillas Choose
  8. 30:47The Party He Made

Sources for this film

  • David Martin & Phyllis Johnson, The Struggle for Zimbabwe (1981)
  • David Smith & Colin Simpson, Mugabe (1981)
  • Maurice Nyagumbo, With the People (1980)
All 8 sources

How each film is checked

Every fact the narrator states is tied to a source we have read. Every number says who counted it. Both sides' accounts are recorded.

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