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1976 - The height of guerilla war

January 23, 2013
https://p.dw.com/p/19D5F
A guerilla reads his rifle serial number to a Patriotic Front Liberation officer
Image: Getty Images/AFP

Two years after Mugabe was released from prison and went to hiding in Mozambique, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party and Zimbabwe African People's Union-Patriotic Front (ZAPU-PF) party would unite to form the Patriotic Front (PF).

They received support from frontline states in southern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Botswana and Zambia. Joshua Nkomo, a freedom fighter imprisoned with Mugabe, was also in exile in Zambia.