The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second Chimurenga, the Zimbabwe War of Independence, and the Zimbabwe Liberation War, was a conflict from c. 1965 to 1979 in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between the white minority-led government of the self-declared but unrecognized country and Black nationalist insurgent groups ZANLA and ZIPRA. After more than a decade of fighting, negotiations in 1979 led to the Lancaster House Agreement, which saw a ceasefire come into effect and a temporary return to British colonial administration. Free elections were held in 1980, which ushered in independence with majority rule under Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-PF (ZANU-PF) political party. For more detail, see Rhodesian Bush War.
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