Republican Front (Zimbabwe)

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox political party 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.<ref>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.</ref>

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.<ref>Pollard, p. 112, 131; Facts on File, 1984 ed., p. 574</ref><ref>"Ian Smith Invites Blacks to Join His Party", The New York Times, July 23, 1984, p. A5.</ref>