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Zim's Abel Muzorewa dies

2010-04-09 10:31

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Harare - Bishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of an interim government which preceded Zimbabwe's independence has died, state media reported on Friday. He was 85.

"The former Zimbabwe-Rhodesia prime minister passed away at his Borrowdale home yesterday (Thursday) afternoon," The Herald newspaper said.

"It is understood that the retired bishop of the United Methodist Church died after receiving news that his younger brother had died in America."

A former schoolteacher, he was consecrated bishop of Rhodesia for the United Methodist Church in 1968.

In 1971 he formed the African National Council (ANC) and opened negotiations with the Rhodesian regime of Ian Smith.

The ANC signed an agreement in 1978 with Smith, Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau to form a transitional government which was rejected by the liberation movement led by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo.

Soon after Mugabe came to power in 1980 Muzorewa was arrested on charges of plotting against the new government.

He retired from active politics in 2001 and made a brief comeback in 2007 announcing that many people had approached him saying they wanted him to stand as presidential candidate in the 2008 joint polls.

- AFP

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