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| 1979 |
| | | A conference in London, at Lancaster House, finally achieves agreement on Southern Rhodesia | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Britain agrees to fund the purchase of land of British farmers in Southern Rhodesia willing to sell, for a much-needed land distribution programme | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Rhodesia becomes independent, taking the name Zimbabwe, with Robert Mugabe as prime minister | |
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| 1987 |
| | | Mugabe and Nkomo merge their two parties as ZANU-PF, making Zimbabwe effectively a one-party state | |
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| 1987 |
| | | The Zimbabwean constitution is changed to make Mugabe executive president (with Nkomo vice-president, until his death in 1999) | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Britain stops funding Zimbabwe's purchase of land for redistribution, on the grounds that many of the farms are being given to the political elite | |
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| 1992 |
| | | A Land Acquisition Act enables Mugabe to purchase land compulsorily, abandoning the 'willing buyer, willing seller' principle agreed at Lancaster House | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Sithole is arrested, on a charge of plotting to assassinate Mugabe, in a move widely seen as a way of keeping him out of the 1996 presidential election | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Mugabe is elected unopposed for a new six-year term as president | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Violent gangs, calling themselves the Mugabe War Veterans Association, start to 'liberate' more than 100,000 sq km of white-owned farmland in Zimbabwe | |
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