# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ndabaningi-sithole
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:12:10.125Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ndabaningi-sithole"
name: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
slug: "ndabaningi-sithole"
description: "Ndabaningi Sithole was a Zimbabwean politician and statesman who, in July 1963, founded the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), a militant, nationalist organisation that opposed the government of Rhodesia. He worked as a United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ) minister. He spent 10 years in prison after the government banned ZANU. A rift along tribal lines split ZANU in 1975, and he lost the 1980 elections to Robert Mugabe."
tagline: "Zimbabwean politician (1920-2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ndabaningi_Sithole_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1920-07-31"
deathDate: "2000-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.69
  momentum:             1.707498144023756
  historical:           13.713544
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "纳达巴尼基·西索尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ندابانينجى سيثول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndabaningi_Sithole"
    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndabaningi_Sithole"
    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndabaningi_Sithole"
    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndabaningi_Sithole"
    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndabaningi_Sithole"
    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndabaningi_Sithole"
    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndabaningi_Sithole"
    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndabaningi_Sithole"
    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndabaningi_Sithole"
    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ситоле, Ндабанинги"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ndabaningi Sithole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1538373"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump