The Changing of the Old Guard: Robert Mugabe and the Revival of ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union)

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Title:	The Changing of the Old Guard: Robert Mugabe and the Revival of ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union)
Author:	Ranger, Terence O.
Year:	1980
Periodical:	Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:	7
Issue:	1
Period:	October
Pages:	71-90
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zimbabwe
Subjects:	ZANU-PF Politics and Government
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636786
Abstract:	There is a large amount of material on the leadership of Mugabe's ZANU: publications, transcribed speeches and interviews, autobiographies, letters. It happens not to be unimportant to examine precisely ZANU at this time. Mugabe and his long-term associates - what some of the literature calls the ZANU 'old guard' - have emerged as dominant in the new government. It is worth knowing where they have recently come from and what they have recently said about where they want to go. Moreover, a concentration on this group also allows to make a connection with what up to now has been the most significant analytical debate about the Zimbabwe liberation movement and by so doing to raise at least some larger issues: Introduction - The critique of the petty-bourgeoisie leadership of ZANU - The old guard and the re-emergence of ZANU - Conclusion. Notes.