Talk:ZANU–PF

message: ZANU-PF added the "PF" to its name prior to Independence in 1980, and was known as ZANU-PF long before the merger with ZAPU.   (Indeed, ZAPU was called PF-ZAPU in the same period.)   The text on the page is factually incorrect.
*The link at the bottom that claims to be the official ZANU-PF website is actually an anti ZANU-PF website.  I think this is official site but it is down http://www.zanupfpub.co.zw/
Skeeter08865 20:46, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: I realize that the ZANU believed in Marxism like most other third world liberation movements during the cold war (the MPLA, FRELIMO, FLN, Official IRA, ETA, FSLN, FMLN, ELN, Black Panther Party, Vietminh, Khmer Rouge, even the ANC flirted with the Communists, etc, etc.) But can the ideology of the ZANU - PF really be described even today as Marxist-Leninist? I mean Zimbabwe's economy, aside from being in a total shambles is predominately a market economy. Aside from land reform which entirely benefits ZANU - PF supporters there hasn't been a single attempt since they came to power in 1980 to redistribute wealth or to collectivize anything. I realize that Leninism serves as the model which the ZANU - PF operates on, ie centralized "democracy" or centralism. But do they really see themselves as being Marxists, or even leftwing at all?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.239.32.173 (talk) 22:27, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Supported: Before independence ZANU was avowedly Marxist-Leninist, as some of their education materials showed. However, ZANU (PF) governments have never been remotely Marxist-Leninist. In the 1980s they could be described as social-democratic. From the late 1990s, they followed standard IMF structural adjustment policies. Describing their current ideology is probably original research, but I would argue for fascist. Babakathy (talk) 17:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Marxist-Leninist?

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Zimbabwe3.png

message: Maybe someone should put a section in about the racist policies enforced by Mugabe?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.175.157 (talk) 10:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racists 

message: What is the slogan of the party? Seems as if knowing it is of great importance to the people of Zimbabwe. 82.16.1.141 (talk) 02:24, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slogan? 

message: Please can someone who is up to date on what happened add some (balanced) detail ton this section? And sources. Babakathy (talk) 12:34, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split of re-organized ZAPU 

message: Is it really appropriate to describe the ZANU-PF as belonging to the "far left?" As this party formed the institutional basis for what was until recently a dominant/single-party system, it would make a bit more sense to describe it as not only belonging to but defining the center of Zimbabwean politics. Either that, or we could do what I would support for all political party articles, and scrap the whole "left, center, right" thing altogether as an irrelevant anachronism. --Apjohns54 (talk) 03:39, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: As the info was unsourced a no one has provided an argument for why it should be considered "far left" in four years, I have removed the term. Its a nominally left wing party of state that administer a market economy (and de facto a form of crony capitalism). There is nothing far left about their policies.--Batmacumba (talk) 19:10, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Far Left?" 

message: As one can see from the discussion above, this is not a new topic to come under discussion. Due to the vast menagerie of international and domestic commentators who all choose to subjectively describe ZANU-PF as being everything from right-wing to left-wing to centrist  (I'd argue a big part of this is ideological dissonance due to the post-Cold War confusion over what exactly constitutes left-wing in the absence of the traditional ideological power blocs), I'm going to request that any sourced information pertaining to this party's ideology be left alone and unaltered unless a source can be provided to the contrary. Thanks, --Katangais (talk) 18:17, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ideology Redux 

message: Please could you quote any source of Moyo being national chairman after 2015?
For me, he was national chairman until 2015 and spokesperson since
http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/opinion/chipanga-simon-khaya-moyo-implications/
https://www.pindula.co.zw/Simon_Khaya_Moyo
http://www.zanupf.org.zw/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CC-Press-Statement-1.jpeg here from official source quoted as "secretary for information and publicity", which is an important charge and should be mentioned in the template, but is not "national chairman".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.252.86.154 (talk) 18:56, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: National chairman

message: I propose that Lacoste (Political Faction) and Generation 40 (Political Faction) be merged into the article on ZANU-PF. I think that both of these political factions could be easily explained in a new section of 'Political Factions' with sub-headings for each. It is unreasonable to assume that either of the two pages pertaining to the political factions will be anything more than stub pages if they are kept as individual articles. GippoHippo (talk) 10:10, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Merge - What I have written above is my reasoning for this suggestion.  GippoHippo (talk) 10:21, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

text: Not sure - that would be fair enough unless more info could be found about each? That sounds fine to me I really don't mind, but wouldn't that make the Zanu-PF article too long if we wanted to fit everything about these factions into it? :) Fourdots2 (talk) 13:42, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pages On Political Factions (Merge Proposal) 

message: Parts of this article, particularly under the ideology section, appear to be an editor's analysis based on the synthesis of multiple sources. CentreLeftRight ✉ 02:22, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research in the "Ideology" section and elsewhere