Zimbabwe Development Party

The Zimbabwe Development Party is a minor Zimbabwean political party. It ran nine candidates in the Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008 but fared poorly, winning just 608 votes (0.03%).

The party was launched on the 4th of February, 2008 in Harare by Kisnot Mukwazhi, a former ZANU-PF member. At the party's launch, attended by about fifty people, Mukwazhi praised ZANU-PF's policies and Robert Mugabe while castigating the MDC and Morgan Tsvangirai. The party's founders left the launch when grilled by journalists on the circumstances behind the party's sudden formation.^[1]

Mukwazhi is the party's presidential candidate for the Zimbabwean general election, 2013.^[2]

References

↑ Zimbabwe Development Party launched
↑ "Race for the Presidency". Newsday. 9 July 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013.

Political parties in Zimbabwe and its antecedents

Governing parties	Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T) Movement for Democratic Change – Ncube (MDC–N)

Minor parties	Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) Zimbabwe African National Union – Ndonga (ZANU–Ndonga) National Alliance for Good Governance (NAGG) Zimbabwe People's Democratic Party Zimbabwe Youth in Alliance (ZYA) International Socialist Organisation (ISO) United Parties United People's Party (UPP) Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland (PUMA) Zimbabwe African People's Union – Federal Party (ZAPU–FP) Zimbabwe Development Party (ZDP)

Defunct Zimbabwean parties	Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) Republican Front (RF) Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe (CAZ) United African National Council (UANC) Zimbabwe Unity Movement (ZUM) Zimbabwe United People's Organisation (ZUPO)

Defunct Rhodesian parties	Central Africa Party Confederate Party Dominion Party Federal Party Responsible Government Association (RGA) Rhodesian Action Party (RAP) Rhodesian Front (RF) Rhodesia Labour Party (RLP) Southern Rhodesia African National Congress (SRANC) Southern Rhodesia Communist Party (SRCP) Southern Rhodesia Liberal Party (SRLP) United Federal Party (UFP) United National Federal Party (UNFP) United Rhodesia Party

President	Robert Mugabe (ZANU–PF)

Prime minister	Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC–T)

Key people	Ndabaningi Sithole (ZANU, ZANU–Ndonga) Joshua Nkomo (ZAPU) Arthur Mutambara (MDC–M) Ian Smith (RF)

Armed factions	ZANLA (ZANU, ZANU–PF) ZIPRA (ZAPU) FROLIZI

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