Zimbabwe: Parties inactive in 2005 and after

Updated July 2009

Zimbabwe has no law requiring registration by political parties. Thus it is difficult to determine whether a party, which does not compete in elections, actually exists in any formal or functional way. Some of the parties listed below may be defunct.

The political parties listed below participated in the 2000, or were founded after it, but did not participate in the 2005 House of Assembly elections or subsequent ones.

Parties are ordered first by date of founding and then alphabetically.

Party Leaders Founded
National Democratic Union (NDU) Henry Chihota
Sometimes Chiota
1979
Democratic Party Wurayayi Zembe
Davidson Gomo
Emmanuel Magoche (retired 1993)
1991
National Progressive Alliance Canciwell Nziramasanga 1991
Front for Popular Democracy Prof Austin Chakaodza 1994
United Parties (UP) Abel Muzorewa Sep 1994
African National Party (ANP) Egypt Dzinemunenzva 1995
Zimbabwe Integrated Party (ZIP) Prof Henri Dzinotyiweyi 1996
Zimbabwe Union of Democrats (ZUD) Margaret Dongo Dec 1998
Liberty Party of Zimbabwe Canaan Moyo Before 2000
Liberty Party (same as above?) 2000?
Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) Agrippa Madlela 2000
Multi-Racial Open Party - Christian Democracy (MOP-CD) c2000