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Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa (14 April 1925 [1] – 8 April 2010), also commonly referred to as Bishop Muzorewa, [2] was a Zimbabwean bishop and politician who served as the first and only Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979.
Signing the Rhodesian Internal Settlement (from left: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ian Smith, Jeremiah Chirau and Ndabaningi Sithole). The Internal Settlement (also called the Salisbury Agreement [1] [2]) was an agreement which was signed on 3 March 1978 between Prime Minister of Rhodesia Ian Smith and the moderate African nationalist leaders comprising Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and ...
Bishop Abel Muzorewa led the nationalists at Victoria Falls, and opened the debate at Smith's invitation. According to the terms agreed in December 1974, the talks between the Rhodesian government and the UANC were to take place within Rhodesia, but in the event the black nationalist leaders were loath to attend a conference on ground they ...
Abel Muzorewa (1925–2010), first and only Prime Minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia; N. Prag Lalloo Naran (1926–1981) leading member of the Zimbabwe Asian Community;
The only prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia was Abel Muzorewa. History of the office. The position was established on 1 June 1979, [1] ...
Following the meeting of Commonwealth heads of government held in Lusaka from 1–7 August 1979, [5] [6] the British government invited bishop Abel Muzorewa, the recently installed prime minister of the (unrecognized) Zimbabwe Rhodesia government, along with the leaders of the Patriotic Front (the name of the ZANU-ZAPU coalition), to participate in a constitutional conference at Lancaster House.
All subsequent predecessor-states continued with the post until Abel Muzorewa who became prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979 under the Internal Settlement. The Lancaster House Agreement brought an independence constitution which made provision for a parliamentary system, with a president as head of state and a prime minister as head of ...
After taking office as Prime Minister, Abel Muzorewa sought to drop "Rhodesia" from the country's name. [28] The name "Zimbabwe Rhodesia" had been criticised by some black politicians like Senator Chief Zephaniah Charumbira, who said it implied that Zimbabwe was "the son of Rhodesia". [29]