List of rulers of Zimbabwe

The President of Zimbabwe is the head of state of Zimbabwe. They are elected using a two-round system.

The President is also the head of government. the office of Prime Minister was abolished in 1987. Under the rules adopted by the same referendum, the president serves a maximum of two five-year terms.

 Unrecognised monarchy (19651970) 

On 7 October 1964 the Southern Rhodesian government announced that when Northern Rhodesia achieved independence as Zambia, the Southern Rhodesian government would officially become known as the Rhodesian Government and the colony would become known as Rhodesia.Southern Rhodesia Information Service Press Statement 980/64 A.G.C. On 23 October of that year, the Minister of Internal Affairs notified the Press that the Constitution would be amended to make this official. The Legislative Assembly then passed an Interpretation Bill to declare that the colony could be referred to as Rhodesia. The Bill received its third reading on 9 December 1964, and passed to the Governor for assent.

On 11 November 1965, following a brief but solemn consensus, Rhodesia's leading statesmen issued their country's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI). This was immediately denounced as an "act of rebellion against the Crown" in the United Kingdom, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson promised that the illegal action would be short-lived. Initially, the state retained its pledged loyalty to Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, recognizing her as Queen of Rhodesia. However, few seemed to initially realize that Rhodesia was no longer within the Commonwealth's direct sphere of influence and British rule was now a constitutional fiction; Salisbury remained virtually immune to credible metropolitan leverage.
PortraitMonarch1107x107pxQueen Elizabeth II
The monarch's powers were the same as prior to the Unilateral Declaration of Independence. However they were de facto exercised by the Officer Administering the Government (Clifford Dupont) as the Queen's de jure representative.

 Prime Minister of Zimbabwe 

 Southern Rhodesia (1923–1970) 
#PortraitName
(Birth–Death)Term of officePolitical Party183x83pxSir Charles Coghlan †
(1863–1927)1 October 192328 August 1927Rhodesia Party270x70pxHoward Unwin Moffat
(1869–1951)2 September 19275 July 1933Rhodesia Party370x70pxGeorge Mitchell
(1867–1937)5 July 193312 September 1933Rhodesia Party4Viscount Godfrey Huggins
(1883–1971)12 September 19337 September 1953United Party5103x103pxSir Garfield Todd
(1908–2002)7 September 195317 February 1958United Rhodesia Party689x89pxSir Edgar Whitehead
(1905–1971)17 February 195817 December 1962United Federal Party793x93pxWinston Field
(1904–1969)17 December 196213 April 1964Rhodesian Front891x91pxIan Smith
(1919–2007)13 April 19641 June 1979Rhodesian Front

 Notes

 † Died in office

PortraitNameTook officeLeft officePolitical party1153x153pxAbel Muzorewa
 1 June 197918 April 1980United African National Council1121x121pxRobert Mugabe18 April 198031 December 1987ZANUPost abolished (31 December 1987 – 11 February 2009)293x93pxMorgan Tsvangirai11 February 200911 September 2013MDC–TPost abolished (11 September 2013)

 List 
PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical PartyTook officeLeft office73x73pxSir John Chancellor 1923 1928Sir Murray Bisset 1928 192860x60pxSir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell 1928 193460x60pxFraser Russell 1934 193582x82pxSir Herbert Stanley 1935 194260x60pxFraser Russell 1942 1942100x100pxSir Evelyn Baring 1942 194460x60pxSir Robert James Hudson 1944 194560x60pxSir Campbell Tait
  1945 194660x60pxSir Fraser Russell
  1946 194660x60pxSir Robert James Hudson 1946 194760x60pxSir John Noble Kennedy 1947 195360x60pxSir Robert Clarkson Tredgold 1953 195460x60pxSir Peveril William-Powlett 1954 195987x87pxSir Humphrey Gibbs
  1959 1969Michael Carver(24 June 1969 – 11 December 1979)78x78pxThe Lord Llewellin 1953 1957†60x60pxSir Robert Clarkson Tredgold 1957 195760x60pxSir William Lindsay Murphy 1957 195760x60pxThe Earl of Dalhousie 1957 196387x87pxSir Humphrey Gibbs
  196311 November 1965
PictureName
(Birth–Death)Term in officeOfficer Administering the Government (1965–1970)Clifford Dupont
(1905–1978)11 November 19652 March 1970Rhodesian FrontPresidents of the Republic of Rhodesia (1970–1979)Clifford Dupont
(1905–1978)16 April 1970
Acting since 2 March 197031 December 1975Rhodesian FrontHenry Everard
(1897–1980) (Acting)31 December 197514 January 1976Rhodesian FrontJohn Wrathall †
(1913–1978)14 January 197631 August 1978Rhodesian FrontHenry Everard
(1897–1980) (Acting)31 August 19781 November 1978Rhodesian FrontJack William Pithey
(1903–1987) (Acting)1 November 19785 March 1979Rhodesian FrontHenry Everard
(1897–1980) (Acting)5 March 19791 June 1979Rhodesian FrontPresident of the Republic of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia (1979)Josiah Zion Gumede
(1919–1989)1 June 197912 December 1979Independent80x80pxThe Lord Soames 1979 1980Position abolishedCanaan Banana18 April 198031 December 1987ZANU138x138pxRobert Mugabe31 December 198721 November 2017ZANU–PF131x131pxPhelekezela Mphoko21 November 201724 November 2017Independent113x113pxEmmerson Mnangagwa24 November 2017IncumbentZANU–PF

 References 

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