1980 in Zimbabwe explained

The following lists events that happened during 1980 in Zimbabwe.

Incumbents

April 18 - Zimbabwe's independence from the United Kingdom is recognised internationally, and the country becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations - which remains the case until December 2003, when Zimbabwe left the Commonwealth of Nations.
April 18 - Canaan Banana, a Methodist minister and theologian, becomes the first President of Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe becomes the first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
July 31 - The Zimbabwean field hockey team wins the gold medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics celebrated in Moscow (USSR)^[1] (see also Zimbabwe at the 1980 Summer Olympics and Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics).
August 25 - Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.^[2]
November 8 - Enos Nkala makes remarks at a rally in Bulawayo, in which he warns ZAPU that ZANU would deliver a few blows against them.^[3] This starts the first Entumbane uprising, in which Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army and Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army fight for two days.

This section lists deaths in Zimbabwe during 1980.