Republican Front (Zimbabwe)

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{{Infobox political party

|name = Republican Front

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|leader = Ian Smith

|founded = {{start date|1981|6|6|df=y}}

|dissolved = {{end date|1984|7|23|df=y}}

|predecessor = Rhodesian Front

|successor = Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe

|headquarters = Salisbury

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|ideology = Conservatism
White minority interests

|position = Right-wing

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|colours = Purple

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|colorcode = Purple

|country = Zimbabwe

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The Republican Front was a political party in Zimbabwe in the 1980s, led by Ian Smith as the continuation of the Rhodesian Front. The name change came on 6 June 1981 as an attempt to distance itself from its policies of the past.John McLaughlin, "Ian Smith and the Future of Zimbabwe," The National Review, October 30, 1981, pp. 2168-70; William C. Pollard, Jr., A Career of Defiance: The Life of Ian Smith (Topeka, Kans.: Agusan River Publishing Co., 1992), pp. 105-7, 131.

On 23 July 1984 it was renamed the Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe. At that time the party, which had started with an all-white membership, tried to appeal to black members, as well as black voters who wished to oppose the policies of the Robert Mugabe government.Pollard, p. 112, 131; Facts on File, 1984 ed., p. 574[https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/23/world/around-the-world-ian-smith-invites-blacks-to-join-his-party.html "Ian Smith Invites Blacks to Join His Party"], The New York Times, July 23, 1984, p. A5.