Zimbabwe

Welcome to the Zimbabwe wikispace. Here you are going to learn about the wonderfull country of Zimbabwe. Here you are going to get some insight Zimbabwes history, culture, religion and more.

This is a close looking map over Zimbabwe, that lies in Africa.

This is Zimbabwes flag.

the Zimbabwean coat of arms. Make note of the banner at the bottom.  UNITY FREEDOM WORK the life motto of Zimbabwe perhaps...

This page here is a video with the national anthem of Zimbabwe. [] __//**Important facts.**//__ The capital in Zimbabwe is Harare. Zimbabwe is part presidential, parliamentary and republic. The president is Robert Mugabe. The prime minister is Morgan Tsvangirai. The vice president is Joice Mujuru. The deputy prime minister is Thokozani Khuphe Arthur Mutambara. The area is about in total 390, 757 km2 The population in 2009 is estimetad to be 12, 523, 000 people.

The Currency is Zimbabwean dollars. __Religion__

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In Zimbabwe, Christianity is the most spread religion in the country. About 40 to 50 percent of the Zimbabweans are Christian. Either Catholic, Methodists or Angelics. Even though Christianity is quite overwhelming some other religions have also gotten to the Zimbabwean population. Thanks to Muslim humanitarian work Islam is estimated to be about 1 percent of the population. This ain’t a lot compared to Christianity. There is not any exact number of other religions but there is known that Hindu, Buddhists and Auitist are also some of the population. As we now see, this is not the whole Zimbabwean population, and it’s belived that the rest of the population are indigeounus belivers. That means that they belive in some other god and healing. Tribal worship.======

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The official language in Zimbabwe is english, even if this is their official language only about 3 percent of the population speaks english, the rest of the population speaks the native languages of Bantu like Shona and Ndebele. These three languages is the official languages.======

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There is also a handful l of other languages that are minorities languages,such as Venda, Shonga, Shangaan, Kalanga, Sotho, Ndau and Nambaya. English is spoken mostly in the cities, the other languages are spoken out in the rural areas. On the radio and television news is spoken in Shona, Ndebele and english. Shona is the biggest culture in Zimbabwe, this makes the way for a lot of special ceremonies. The Shona makes a lot of god sculptures (idols) and models made from the finest materials.======

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I think that they use these languages because of Britain that brought with them the english language, some of the people in Zimbabwe, especially in the city. Most of the people in Zimbabwe speak one of the native languages.======

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The Zimbabwean national day was first celebrated on 18. Of April in 1980. On the national day the Zimbabweans does a lot to mark their independence. The celebration takes place at the national sports stadium or Rufaro sports stadium in Harare. When the celebration has begun they release doves that resembles peace and at the same time fighting jets flies over the stadium and all the people sing the national anthem. Then the president lights the flame of independence. The president gives a speech to the people at the stadium, this speech is also filmed and sent on television so that those can’t come to the stadium can see the speech.======

__Colony history__ Zimbabwe is one of the longest populated countries in Africa. Archaeological finds from around 500 000 years ago, probably originated from the ancestors of the hunter-gather people. From the 1850s the European hunters, traders and missionaries visited Zimbabwe and related links to Mzilikazi and Lobengula. In 1890 a group of colonists from South-Africa settled down in Harare. It was Cecil Rhodes who started the process. He used with British support, he’s British South Africa Company (BSAC) to innovation, which ended with King Lobengula got fired, after he tried to defend his country, and that white kingdom also got introduced in Matabeleland. The Ndebele and the shonagroups started a revolt against the occupation in 1896 to 1897 because the European people took their fields and cows and forced them to work, and that was the first freedom fight named Chimurenga, in Zimbabwe. The Ndebele signed a peace agreement with the colonists. The Shonas lost without any agreement. In 1889 the Portuguese tried to take the Eastside of Zimbabwe. The rebellion in the 1890s had long-term political significance, to strengthen the position of whites, to the country got a British colony with self-government in 1923 and to give support to the freedom war (the second Chimurenga) in the 1970s. BSAC continued controlling Zimbabwe after the rebellion, and the European immigration increased. After the First World War increased the demand for autonomy and a poll among the country’s 34 000 European inhabitants in 1922 gave majority for autonomy instead of a corporation with the South-Africa-union. In 1923, Zimbabwe was in practice, an independent autonomy British colony which was ruled of a white minority on 5 % of the population. The BSAC established laws and oppressed blacks in order to secure European control over land and cheap African labor. The fields was divided into zones and divided between Africans and whites, where the white people got the biggest parts and the best places. The Second World War led to economic growth in Zimbabwe and after 1945 the white population increased from 80 000 to 205 000 in 1958, and because of that the white people demand that Zimbabwe should be an autonomy country. At the same time the urbanization raised and it came a lot of Africans who promoted the political organization and demands for equal rights. From 1953 to 1963 Zimbabwe was a part of the central African federation with Zambia and Malawi. They quit the federation when Zambia and Malawi got independent in 1964. In 1965 the Rhodesia Front won the election and the new Prime Minister was Ian Smith. Zimbabwe got an independent state 11.november 1965.FN didn’t liked what Smith did, so they punished the country economic. The United Kingdom didn’t care about the people who didn’t follow the rolls in Zimbabwe although Zimbabwe formally still was under British colony. Smith made the difference between black and white people unless. 2. March 1970 Smith declared Zimbabwe as a republic.