Zimbabwe
- Population
- 11,392,629
- Government Type
- Parliamentary Democracy
- Colonial History
- British Control from the 1880s when Cecil Rhodes arrives with the British South Africa Company and named it Rhodesia
- By 1963, Rhodesia had been divided into 3 different colonies and when the white-minority colony dropped its “Southern” name
- They then decided to make a decision to make a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) from the UK on November 11, 1965
- A struggle for control broke out and not until December 1, 1979 was a treaty signed to end the war
- Different Tribes/Ethnic Groups
- Black ethnic groups make up 98% of the population, the majority the Shona at 80-84%, the Ndebele at 10-15%, and other Bantu groups that make 2-5% (Venda, Tonga, Shangaan, Kalanga, Sotho, Ndau, and Nambya)
- Languages
- Bantu languages-Shona and Ndebele and English are the principle languages
- Exports
- $1.213 Billion (2009)
- Platinum, cotton, tobacco, gold, ferroalloys, textiles/clothing
- Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Botswana, China, Zambia, Netherlands, UK (2009)
- Imports
- South Africa, China
- machinery and transport equipment, other manufactures, chemicals, fuels, food products
- Resources
- Deposits of more than 40 minerals including ferrochrome, gold, silver, platinum, copper, asbestos; 19 million hectares of forest (2000)
- (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/zi.html)
- Music
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL_EM4wSbqc
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