National Democratic Party

…in 1960 and founded the National Democratic Party (NDP); in 1961, when the NDP was banned in turn, he founded ZAPU. The white-minority government of Rhodesia held Nkomo in detention from 1964 until 1974. After his release he traveled widely in Africa and Europe to promote ZAPU’s goal of Black…

In Southern Rhodesia the National Democratic Party (NDP) and the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), both led by Joshua Nkomo, were successively proscribed in 1961 and 1962.

…stated on behalf of the National Democratic Party that it was the first nationalist organization to distinguish clearly between the remedial approach to grievances and a basic approach that attacked the main cause of grievances against an unjust system. The NDP agitated for political change leading to majority rule based…

…he became president of the National Democratic Party in 1960. It, too, was soon banned, and he formed the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), which in turn was banned in 1962. In 1963 Robert Mugabe broke with ZAPU to join the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and thereby split African…