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Key dates in the history of Zimbabwe: 1980: Independence Zimbabwe is born on 18 April 1980, after 90 years as the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, which ended in a brutal seven-year war between black nationalists and white supremacists trying to prevent majority rule. Guerrilla leader Robert Mugabe becomes prime minister on a promise of…