Zimbabwe African National Union - Ndonga

Updated February 2000

The Zimbabwe African National Union - Ndonga (ZANU - Ndonga) was formed by Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole after he was forced out of ZANU PF. Sithole was the founding chairman of ZANU. The party won one seat in the 1990 elections and two seats in 1995. The party's support is largely from the Ndau populated district of Chipinge where it won its seats.

The party was tarnished by its association with Ian Smith during a short-lived discredited Zimbabwe-Rhodesia interregnum.

ZANU - Ndonga has support in neighbouring constituencies and in Chimanimani. Sithole withdrew from the 1996 Presidential race following a long running campaign of charges of involvement in assassination plots and coup attempts.