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The 50-year-old leader of the war veterans is maintaining his warrior rhetoric, warning there will be another "Chimurenga" (war of independence) if ZANU-PF fails to win this weekend's elections.
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Should Mugabe's ZANU-PF party lose the forthcoming legislative elections in August, Hunzvi insists that a new "Chimurenga" (war of independence) must be unleashed.
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I knew many of the leaders of the "Chimurenga" as the liberation movement was called and decided to settle in Zimbabwe after independence.
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It was used for example in former Rhodesia, presently Zimbabwe, where they were called "Chimurenga" (Eng. war songs).
The Two Malcontents 2009
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When a new opposition party, the MDC, took to the political stage in Zimbabwe and turned out to be a serious competitor at the end of the 1990s, the 'Chimurenga' (struggle) became a permanent institution.
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Should Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front lose the elections, Hunzvi insists that a new "Chimurenga"
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This Wednesday's show is going to be strong stuff I'm definitely going! with a dance concert of Zimbabwe-born Nora Chipaumire's award winning work "Chimurenga."
Michal Shapiro: Meklit Hadero: Diva in the Works Michal Shapiro 2011
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This Wednesday's show is going to be strong stuff I'm definitely going! with a dance concert of Zimbabwe-born Nora Chipaumire's award winning work "Chimurenga."
Michal Shapiro: Meklit Hadero: Diva in the Works Michal Shapiro 2011
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The students also learned of the legendary Nehanda of Zimbabwe, the female spiritual leader who led the first Chimurenga, or war of liberation, against colonialists in 1896.
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An especially violent historical parallel is Rhodesia's (now Zimbabwe) Second Chimurenga, that began in 1964 and lasted until 1979, which began as a civil disobedience movement, but escalated into civil war against the minority white colonial ruling faction.
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