ZIMBABWEAN opposition leader Ndabaningi Sithole has died in the United States of a heart problem. He was 80. Sithole, one of Zimbabwe’s leading black nationalist leaders in the 1960s and 1970s, was founding president of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) party in 1963, now the ruling ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe. Mugabe ousted Sithole as ZANU’s leader in the mid-1970s, charging him with ”selling out” the struggle for black majority rule, a charge Sithole denied. Sithole later formed his own ZANU-Ndonga party, which he led until his death. – Reuters
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