Super Zimbabwe African People's Union
Appearance
The Super Zimbabwe African People's Union was a militant organization, made up of former members of the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA),Rhodesian Security Forces and turned ANC cadres ( ASKARIs ), which operated in Zimbabwe in the 1980s. Super ZAPU members were believed to have been supported by South Africa's apartheid government as a proxy in Zimbabwe to undermine Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's new government.[1]
Author Joseph Hanlon argues in Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid power in Southern Africa that Super ZAPU members were former ZIPRA fighters who fought on behalf of South Africa.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ The Zimbabwe African People's Union, 1961-87: A Political History of Insurgency in Southern Rhodesia, Eliakim M. Sibanda, Africa World Press, 2005, page 261
- ^ Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid Power in Southern Africa, Joseph Hanlon, Indiana University Press, 1986, pages 180-182