Crossword clues for zimbabwe
zimbabwe
- Its flag features an image of a stone-carved bird
- Victoria Falls forms part of its border
- Country with the most official languages (16)
- A landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia
- Achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980
- African country, formerly Rhodesia
- South-east African country
- Shortly go with male and attractive girl to house with land
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
southern African nation, 1980, named for an ancient city there, from Bantu zimba we bahwe "houses of stones," from zimba, plural of imba "house" + bahwe "stones." Previously known as Rhodesia (1964-80). Related: Zimbabwean.
Wiktionary
n. Any of the prominent cultural ruins of which http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Zimbabwe is the most well known.
Wikipedia
Zimbabwe , officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked sovereign state located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers. It borders South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west, Zambia to the northwest, and Mozambique to the east and northeast. The capital and largest city is Harare. A country of roughly 13 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most commonly used.
Since the 11th century, present-day Zimbabwe has been the site of several organised states and kingdoms as well as a major route for migration and trade. The British South Africa Company of Cecil Rhodes first demarcated the present territory during the 1890s; it became the self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1923. In 1965, the conservative white minority government unilaterally declared independence as Rhodesia. The state endured international isolation and a 15-year guerrilla war with black nationalist forces; this culminated in a peace agreement that established universal enfranchisement and de jure sovereignty in April 1980. Zimbabwe then rejoined the Commonwealth of Nations—which it withdrew from in 2003. It is a member of the United Nations, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA).
Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in 1980, when his ZANU-PF party won the elections following the end of white minority rule; he has been the president of Zimbabwe since 1987. Under Mugabe's authoritarian regime, the state security apparatus has dominated the country and been responsible for widespread human rights violations. Mugabe has maintained the revolutionary socialist rhetoric from the Cold War era, blaming Zimbabwe's economic woes on conspiring Western capitalist countries. Burnished by his anti-imperialist credentials, contemporary African political leaders have been reluctant to criticise Mugabe, though Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called him "a cartoon figure of an archetypal African dictator."
"Zimbabwe" is a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers. The song had been released on the 1979 album Survival, and premiered at the Amandla Festival.
Marley wrote the song in support of the Marxist–Leninist and Maoist guerillas fighting against the Rhodesian government in the Bush War. Shortly after Robert Mugabe's victory and ascension to power in the newly renamed Zimbabwe, Marley was invited to perform at the independence celebrations in Salisbury. His concert was briefly delayed while local security forces quelled instances of civil unrest in the city.
"Zimbabwe" was the only song from the Survival album that was regularly performed by Marley on his last Uprising Tour in 1980, other Survival songs having been dropped prior.
The 2006 deluxe edition of the eponymous album Sublime contains an acoustic cover of "Zimbabwe" by Brad Nowell.
Zimbabwe is a country in southern Africa. The term may also refer to:
- Zimbabwe (song), a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers
- Great Zimbabwe, an archeological site in southern Africa
- Zimbabwe craton, Early Archaean lithology in southern Africa
Zimbabwe is a 2007 live album by American indie/ roots folk band Dispatch. The album was recorded in Madison Square Garden in front of a sellout crowd.
Usage examples of "zimbabwe".
Now the pride of the Zimbabwe airforce, they had once mercilessly blasted the guerrilla camps beyond the Zambezi.
Phoenicians passed through the area which is now Melsetter, to Bechuanaland now known as Boswana, after settling at Zimbabwe and Khami.
The serial of the book had been shown on Zimbabwe television two years previously, before these guerrillas had returned to the bush, and it had enjoyed an avid following throughout its run.
It carried Zimbabwe Air Force roundels, and incongruously the pilot was a white man, but there was a black man in the right-hand seat, and he wore the dreaded burgundy-red beret and silver cap-badge.
From the banks of video screens he could see by their various labels that they were live video feeds coming from East Timor, the Golan Heights, Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, the Congo, Rwanda, Sinai, Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Bogota, Iraq-everywhere the UN had a peacekeeping mission, an inspection team, or a monitoring post.
He was bornin what is now known as Zimbabwe and taughtlaw at the University of Botswana.
A servant in a flowing white kanza, reminiscent of colonial days, brought Craig his drink and when he left, Peter Fungabera said simply, "The Land Bank of Zimbabwe has agreed to stand as your personal surety for a loan of five million dollars from the World Bank or its associate bank in New York.
The British High Commission has called upon the prime minister of Zimbabwe to express Her Majesty's government's deep concern at the reports of atrocities being committed by security forces-" Craig switched to Radio South Africa, and it came through sharp and clear' the arrival of hundreds of illegal refugees across the northern border from Zimbabwe.
We read similar stories from New York, New Jersey, Missouri, Washington state -- never mind the incarcerations in China and the executions in Zimbabwe and Central Asia.
Henry Pickering asked me to tell you that the Land Bank of Zimbabwe has repudiated its suretyship for your loan.
She foresaw that the man who brought the falcons back to Zimbabwe would rule the land as once did the Mambos and Monomatopas, as once did your ancestors Lobengula and great Mzilikazi.
For a start, by far the majority of the signers were not climate scientists but political representatives from their respective countries, ranging all the way from Albania to Zimbabwe, with degrees in the social sciences.