Lancaster House Agreement

The Lancaster House Agreement was the independence agreement for Rhodesia, nowadays known as Zimbabwe. It was signed on 21 December 1979.

Mr Mugabe, Mr Nkomo and delegation

• Mr Robert Mugabe - future Prime minister of Zimbabwe
• Mr Joshua Nkomo - ZAPU leader
• Mr Josiah Mushore Chinamano - ZAPU leader, moderate, detained with Nkomo, future government minister
• Mr E Z Tekere - future Government minister, expelled from the party in 1988 after he denounced plans to establish a one-party state in Zimbabwe. He also emerged as a vocal critic of the massacre of civilians in Matabeleland after government launched a crackdown against so-called dissidents in the region. He formed his own party, Zimbabwe Unity Movement (ZUM) in 1989 ahead of general elections in 1990.
• Gen Josiah Tongogara, ZANLA general, from ZANU militant external wing
• Mr Ernest R Kadungure, ZAPU, future Finance secretary
• Dr H Ushewokunze - first health minister, director of energy and transportation, director of political affairs. Flamboyant and often controversial, he often clashed with the Mugabe administration and was thrown out of the government, welcomed back in, then thrown out again. He died in 1995 and was buried in Zimbabwe's national cemetery. He was declared a national hero.
• Mr Dzingai Mutumbuka - future minister of education
• Mr Josiah Tungamirai - future Air force chief, after retirement as MP for Gutu North.
• Mr Edson Zvobgo - lawyer, Harvard graduate, future Government minister, clashed with Mugabe around press freedom, buried a national hero.
• Mr S Mubako
• Mr W Kamba
• Mr J W Msika - ZAPU leader, detained with Nkomo, future vice-president
• Mr T George Silundika - militant ZAPU-in-exile leader.
• Mr A M Chambati
• Mr John Nkomo
• Mr L Baron
• Mr S K Sibanda
• Mr E Mlambo
• Mr C Ndlovu
• Miss E Siziba